This novel takes place, simultaneously, in different countries. In Peru, the owner of "Henderson Tech", his bodyguard, three models and their guide are attacked by a black tide in the jungle. Henderson manages to survive and he escapes in his private jet ignoring what's … [Read more...]
Scott Mariani – The Heretic’s Treasure.
This novel is part of the invincible Ben Hope's series. Harry Paxton, the man who saved Ben's life a few years ago, asks Ben to investigate and avenge his son, Morgan Paxton. He was murdered while he was doing a search in Egypt. Morgan was searching a treasure … [Read more...]
Naomi Novik – Uprooted.
I think I'll read more of Naomi's books. Agnieszka lives in Dvernik, one of the Dragon Valley's towns. The Dragon is a very powerful wizard who, every ten years, takes with him one girl and that girl never returns home. However, the Dragon isn't a terrible person, he … [Read more...]
Matthew Reilly – Scarecrow.
This is part of the Shane Schofield's series. A list with 15 names is announced by the Council of a secret organization formed by the twelve richest men in the world. The names belong to 15 targets that must be killed in six days. Among these names, is that from … [Read more...]
Matthew Reilly – Temple.
William Race is a teacher of the New York University and a linguist. Without prior notice, he's been asked, by the colonel Frank Nash, to translate a manuscript written in latin in the year 1535 by a spanish monk. In this manuscript are written the whereabouts of an … [Read more...]
J. G. Sandom – The God Machine.
Koster has, already, been the main character in another book written by this author, but he's not the main character of all the books of J. G. Sandom, so I decided that this category was the best for the author. Joseph Koster is going to search for the "Gospel of … [Read more...]
Agatha Christie – The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.
This is a compilation of some short stories among which are "The Witness for the Prosecution", a story where a woman is very clever and she achieves, in a perfect way, what she wanted to achieve; and "The Fourth Man", this is the story that I liked the most because it … [Read more...]
Agatha Christie – Poirot’s Early Cases.
Captain Hastings makes a collection of some cases in which Poirot participated before he became a famous detective. Some of them belong to Poirot's time in the belgian police, others belong to his first stage in London, and, there's a case, "The Chocolate Box", which … [Read more...]