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Month: September 2017

The Reluctant Contact by Stephen Burke review

September 26, 2017 Jack Cold War, Esponage, Historical, Mystery, Thriller

The Reluctant Contact is a mystery thriller set in 1977 on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard archipelago. While Spitsbergen is Norwegian territory during the Cold War the Soviet Union had coal

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Munich by Robert Harris out now

September 22, 2017 Jack Historical, Thriller, World War Two

The new novel by Robert Harris titled Munich was officially published yesterday. I’ve always felt that a new “Harris” is always a bit of a highlight of the publishing year and getting each new novel

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Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams TV tie-in

September 15, 2017 Jack Science Fiction

This is a little bit off-topic but I’m a big Philip K Dick fan so why not… Channel 4 has done a new anthology series based on ten of the short stories by Philip K

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The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith TV tie-in edition

September 15, 2017 Jack Crime, Mystery

I’ve just discovered that Sphere books have put out a TV tie-in edition of the second Cormoran Strike novel by Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm. This is addition to the tie-in of The Cuckoo’s Calling. Robert

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I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist

September 10, 2017 Jack Horror

Out now is I Am Behind You, the new novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of Let the Right One In. Well, I say “new” in the sense that this is a 2016 English translation

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A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre out now

September 7, 2017 Jack Cold War, Esponage, Thriller

Just a quick reminder that the new John le Carre novel, A Legacy of Spies, is out today. After 25 years, Smiley is back… Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British

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The Reluctant Contact by Stephen Burke

September 7, 2017 Jack Cold War, Esponage, Thriller

I noticed listings for The Reluctant Contact by Stephen Burke earlier in the year and thought it sounded right up my street. I mean 1970s-era Cold War espionage goings-on in the arctic, what’s not to

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The Tiger’s Prey by Wilbur Smith with Tom Harper

September 7, 2017 Jack Historical

I have to confess I’ve never read a Wilbur Smith novel. I guess I’ve always thought that they were not quite my “thing”. That being said the new Wilbur Smith novel, The Tiger’s Prey, is

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The Saboteur by Andrew Gross preview

September 3, 2017 Jack Historical, Thriller, World War Two

I don’t know much about Andrew Gross other than he’s one of those bestselling authors who co-wrote books with bestselling author James Patterson. My eyes kind of slip over those books when I see them

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