A review of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, by David Quammen. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). Tales of the often-heroic scientists, physicians, and veterinarians who worked directly with deadly emergent diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, Marburg, and H5N1, occasionally at the cost of their own lives.
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A review of The Racketeer, by John Grisham. @@@@ (4 out of 5). Malcolm Bannister is Grisham’s protagonist here. Bannister is a hapless small-town attorney in Virginia about halfway through an unjustified ten-year sentence in the Federal pen for violating the RICO act — and he’ll go to any lengths to get even with the FBI for putting him there.
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A review of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt. @@@@ (4 out of 5). How the most influential poem ever written laid the foundation for the Renaissance, the development of science, and modern thinking.
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A review of A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers. @@@ (3 out of 5). A middle-aged American salesman spends weeks in Saudi Arabia, trying to sell a huge IT system to the King on behalf of an IBM-like company.
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A review of Criminal, by Karin Slaughter. @@@@ (4 out of 5). A deeply satisfying crime novel set in Atlanta, with the action shifting repeatedly from the present day to 1975 and back again.
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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.