Its title is Night of Camp David, but the publisher topped off the cover with a teaser page to emphasize the novel’s relevance to the madness in Washington today. “What would happen if the President of the U.S.A. went stark-raving mad?” the teaser reads. The implication is that...
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Joe Haldeman’s classic science fiction war novel, The Forever War, appears on most lists of the all-time most popular stories in the field. The book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. When it was published in 1974, the Vietnam War was winding down. Haldeman had fought in the...
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We know very little about America’s role in the Korean War. History books relate how Kim Il-Sung’s North Korean army invaded the South. They tell us that the invasion succeeded in driving US and South Korean troops down the length of the peninsula. Then, we learn, General Douglas...
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The Australian-American author Geraldine Brooks has written six works of outstanding historical fiction to date. She began her career as a journalist, working as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. In France, she met and married an American journalist and converted to Judaism. In...
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Imagine this: a detective who digs out clues from the most obscure and tangential details—and doggedly pursues them on his own, regardless of what his superiors tell him. Is that Sherlock Holmes reincarnated in Los Angeles in the person of Harry Bosch? Nope. He’s a modest detective sergeant...
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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.