Alan Furst has written fifteen novels to date in his Night Soldiers series, which he began writing late in the 1980s when he was nearly 50 years of age. While attending general studies courses at Columbia University, he became acquainted with Margaret Mead, for whom he later worked. Before...
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For thousands of years, the history of what is India today has been shaped by large-scale population movements. Ever since the arrival of anatomically modern humans tens of thousands of years ago, the subcontinent has been wracked by periodic invasions and flows of refugees. Among the most...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes In The Secret War, his revisionist history of intelligence in World War II, British historian Max Hastings insists that spies, special forces, and resistance fighters had little impact on the outcome of the war. He makes the case that the Allies’s decoding...
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In The Paris Diversion, Chris Pavone picks up the story he began in his debut, Edgar-Award-winning novel, The Expats. Kate and Dexter Moore have survived the discovery of Dexter’s involvement in an enormous cyber-theft he helped engineer from their home in Luxembourg. They’re in Paris,...
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Are you ready for 1950s cyberpunk? Well, ready or not, here it is—a novel on nearly every list of the all-time best science fiction. Yes, it’s 50s classic science fiction. And, yes, the book was published more than sixty years ago. Yet it (almost) reads as though it could have been written...
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.