Book Review
First A Torch
"First A Torch" is one hell of a war novel. Richard Baker, who served with the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam, tells of the epic, six-month siege of the doomed French outpost at Dien Bien Phu in Indochina through characters on both...
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Morgan 41
The cast of characters in "Morgan 41", the third in Bob Erlich’s Eli Rose crime/espionage series, includes willing, busty girls in skimpy bikinis, slimy, over-dressed Latin drug lords, greedy federal agents on the take, Caribbean...
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The Next Best Man
In "The Next Best Man", Bob Erlich continues the adventures of Eli Rose, the character he introduced in the Ian Fleming-style espionage story, No Vacancy. Although billed as the second novel in a trilogy, "The Next Best Man" reads more...
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No Vacancy
Poor Eli Rose can’t catch a break. Just when he gets himself out of one jam, the plucky hero of Bob Erlich’s 1960s-era crime and espionage novel "No Vacancy" gets caught up in another scheme. Try as he might, Eli is never the master...
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The Turkish Ambassador
“Unsung hero” may be a term too often used, but after reading The Turkish Ambassador no one will contest that Behic Erkin is worthy of being so honored. As told by his grandson, the story of Behic Erkin, a man of courage and...
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Judah Scepter
What family doesn’t have its legends? The Arundell-Howard family may deserve legendary status for its family lineage: it claims descent not only from the illustrious medieval and modern royal houses of Europe, but also to be the scions...
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Colossal Wrecks
Some books boldly defy classification by genre, and Dr. Bernard Michael Patten’s "Colossal Wrecks" is just such a piece of work. Patten enabled himself to pen this “post-modern meta-fictional travel adventure romance novel” by...
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The Priest, The Knight and Zeus
Some who pick up Brian Daniel Starr’s book "The Priest, The Knight and Zeus" may find it amusing, believing it is a tongue-in-cheek work of humor. They would be wrong. Few readers can be expected to buy into a work of genealogy that...