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Book descriptionA man lies dead, sprawled in the bedroom of apartment #8. Rock music blares as two militiamen follow the bloody trail upstairs. . . and into the quick, cold slice of a razor-edged blade.The victim was a criminal. But two honest cops were killed with him. Gregori Nowek, mayor of the small Siberian town, is ordered to investigate. Armed with only a few clues--a fragment of cloth, American bullets, an unidentified bone--Nowek is shocked when a prime suspect is named.Dr. Anna Vereskaya came to Siberia to study the endangered tiger. Instead, she stumbled on the dangerous edge of a shocking conspiracy. Gregori Nowek wants to believe in her innocence--just as he wants to believe in justice for his lawless town. Searching for answers, Nowek is plun...
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Review:Exiled in a Flagstaff field office after ruffling FBI feathers in Washington, special agent Mark Beamon investigates a double murder and kidnapping and finds that all clues lead to a cult-like church that has friends in high places--including the FBI. Beamon's career is on the line, as is a teenage girl's life, but wherever he goes, the Church of the Evolution mysteriously manages to get there just ahead of him. Storming is sprinkled with a likeable cast of characters, including a retired wireman for the FBI, a weird ex-Church member who's more than eager to divulge its secrets, and a pretty psychiatrist who inspires Beamon to pump iron, lay off booze and cigarettes, and attempt to clean up his act. But his quick mind and faster mouth get ...
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Review:
First off, Cole Perriman is said to be the pseudonym of another writer. I
rather suspect that it is the pseudonym of at least two other writers, since
that is the easiest explanation of the rather dichotomous writing involved
here. In some places there is a very nice feel for technology, some other
passages demonstrate the usual flights of, well, fantasy.
The terminal games of the title revolve around an online service called
Insomnimania. The description of the technology fits an expansion of MUD
(multi-user domain) gaming: basically conversation between online users. The
addition of cartoon "virtual reality" is well within acceptable limits, and the
"bots" (automated response programs) are credible as well. The online
conversatio...
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Reviews (1) and details of Terminal Games: A Cyber-Thriller
Review:Patrick McLanahan, a sometime secret agent for the military and an associate of a high-tech company that manufactures weapons for the armed forces, is the hero of Dale Brown's fast-paced thriller The Tin Man. When McLanahan's kid brother, a rookie cop in Sacramento, is severely injured by a gang of international terrorists, McLanahan decides to take justice into his own hands and shut down their operation. In order to do so, McLanahan must figure out who these heavily-armed thugs are and track them down. He and the owner of the high-tech company develop a powerful weapon to help him accomplish that task--a bulletproof suit equipped with rocket thrusters that makes McLanahan a formidable fighting machine. McLanahan soon comes to be known as ...
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Reviews (3) and details of The Tin Man
Review:
As I should have been able to figure out from the title (but didn't),
this is a romance. Lots of creamy thighs, spicy musk smell (for
males), spicy tropical scents (for females), half naked bodies,
feelings of melting into the sidewalk, et cetera, et cetera.
As such, this is *wildly* outside of my normal review fodder. I will
limit myself, therefore, to the comments that the dialogue is
unintentionally hilarious in places, and the plot seriously strains
belief. (At the denouement, the deus is literally ex machina, and so
many loose ends are tied up in the final page or two that one feels
the book was serged to finish it off.) The copious red herrings are
quite transparent, and most of the important plot twists can be seen
from a long ...
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