A Fast pace thriller with a Classic Feel!!!!!!!!
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Set against the backdrop of North Wales in the UK, Web of Deceit is the story of a young man named George Travis who lived a simple life in the mountainous region. Now his life has been flipped upside down as he works to not only evade the police but also out maneuver both the media and a man he believed was a friend...

This story is truly powerful. Set in the year 1999: A time when cell phone and internet technology were simply infants, this story shows the early stages of what life would be like in an instant news world... With propaganda, distorted facts, and smear tactics; it is the story of one man fighting back...

I fell in love with Travis immediately. A man that keeps to himself, taking long walks, birdwatching, he is the most unlikely hero. The author has done an amazing job of proving we can all be larger than life...

Charles R Stubbs is someone I put up on my shelf with James Rollins, Jeremy Robinson, and Dan Brown. His prose and dialogue were tight, and his characters were strongly developed. I can't wait to read more!!!
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"A Simple Plan" isn't your ordinary thriller where you know exactly who's the bad guy and who's the good guy.  This isn't the type of thriller where you know right way who's pulling the strings.  "A Simple Plan" is a one-of-a-kind thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout the entire movie.  You are just about to find out that sometimes good people do evil things.
This movie is about three men who stumple upon a crashed airplane.  Inside is a dead pilot....and a bag full of cash.  They can keep the money.  It's not stealing......is it?  Well, they're about to find out how something that seems so simple can end up costing whole lot more than any of them can even imagine.
The acting is great in this movie.  Paxton and Thornton do a really good job in their roles.  Bridget Fonda also does a great job, being the wife who eggs her husband on and devises all of the plans and schemes for him on how to keep the money.  Sam Raimi does an outstanding job as director.  The cinematography is also breathtaking.
What I really like about this movie is the story.  It's a very thought-provoking and disturbing thriller that has numerous twists and turns along the way.  And the ending.....wow.  You're not going to believe how this movie will end.
The DVD is great when it comes to sound and picture quality.  Especially picture quality.  One of those DVDs where you see the picture clear as crystal.  It lacks in special features, as always the case with Paramount.  So don't have your heart set on that aspect of the DVD.
"A Simple Plan" is a brilliant thriller with a very clever and well-structured plot.  If you like thrillers with edge and disturbing twists, this is the movie for you.  A great story, a great plot, a great cast of characters, and overall a great movie.
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There is way more to this "thriller" than the typical story of cause and affect. Hired guns, save the world  we usually find. True, it is extremely fast paced. Sometimes a bit hard to follow which should make the reader pay closer attention but like a bright green ribbon woven throughout the narrative is the study of the natural balance of nature and the earth.  Like an environmentalist is crossed with a Jack Reacher type character. Extremely fascinating. It is  book that I am sure I will have to read again to really understand it totally but worthy of re-reading. The main characters are strong and created with a good deal of depth.
  The gist of the story is a man named Jack who, when we first "meet"him has no idea of who he is or what he is doing. He is obviously some sort of mercenary and he still has all those skills and has no problem remembering that part of his life. He ends up heading for the midwest, somewhere in Arizona maybe. Driven to and unsure why.  Turns out he is looking for his wife and son who he had abandoned  ten years ago. Its a long time before he figures this fact out. Billy and his mom, Rachael have survived and flourished after  Billy's dad left them. Rachael doesn't think about him much now. Her interests are with Sheriff Regan now.
 A good man and a great father figure to Billy. Billy is soon to graduate High School and head to college when his life turned around and his lost father comes back bringing death and destruction . It is hard to tell the good guys from the bad and even some of them are not exactly sure who or what they are chasing.
 It seems to be both a what and a who they are trying to collect. Billy's father has something priceless that several government agencies are trying to get their hands on and they want Jack dead and they are not concerned about collateral damage . Those being anyone they can bring Jack out in the open with. As Jack doesn't remember much of anything, that doesn't work so well.
 There are just so many levels to this story. I really, really enjoyed it. I also believe in the main theme running through it on that green shiny ribbon I mentioned. "humanity is governed by the same biological laws as the elk.... we are vulnerable to our own appetite." Too many humans cause an out of balance planet. So this is a book I highly recommend on the many levels you will find layered in it.
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Not much of one to write a review but after seeing that there was only one for this book, I thought I would add to it.  I purchased this because of the I-40 connection for me.  It was a great read, kept my interest all the way through.  I love thrillers and feel I have to finish every book I start but this one was a piece of cake.  You won't be sorry, go ahead and get this one.  I finished it quite a while ago but I still think of it when I go past the truck stop on I-40 in Tennessee.
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HOODWINK is a well plotted, tightly written thriller that successfully bridges the familiar territory of the cold war with the new world of capitalist realpolitik. It tells the story of a long standing plot by the KGB to destabilise the UK by exposing the extent to which the `establishment' has been infiltrated by freemasons. The action is fast and furious, interspersed with lots of interesting stuff about the practice of freemasonry but, overall, the book doesn't become an anti-masonic polemic. As with all good thrillers the action comes first, but the author also makes some serious points about the corrupting effects of secrecy.

Dominic Torr tells a great story with the authority of someone who knows this world from the inside. I thoroughly enjoyed it and read it in two sittings. By the end I was not sure how much to believe, but I see that as a mark of the author's skill
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If you want to read a good thriller that will keep you guessing through the entire book then you need to purchase The Magician by D.A. Pupa.
Once I picked up the book and starting reading it I could not put down and when I finished the book I wanted more. It is a thriller that has you on the edge of your seat wanting more.
I decided to read the book again to see if I missed any clues or reasons why the killer was doing what he was doing. When i finished the second time around I clearly understood and picked up some facts that I missed the first time around.
This book has the making of a movie and if there is another book to follow i will be one of the first customers to purchase.
Great reading!!!!!!!!!
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Quite possibly the best thing about Stephen Martinos debut novel, The New Reality, is the fact that the action is fast-paced from the very beginning! Theres nothing worse than picking up a new book, getting excited to get into the story that you read about on the back cover, and then having to trudge through 100 pages of back story just to get things going. Martino avoids that entire concern by just getting right to the point and that, alone, made this one of the best thrillers that Ive read in years. The fast-paced action aside, I also enjoyed the story that Martino tells  even if it may be a harbinger of things to come.

The New Reality is a medical thriller set not too far in the future (the year is 2080, though the story jumps to 2081 soon after it starts) with very real connections to todays political world. As the story moves along, the reader is introduced to different characters situated on a global landscape ranging from America to the Arab states and more. For example, the main antagonist  Ari Lesmana, known as the Malik  seems to be born from the hype that surrounded President Barack Obamas first presidential campaign. The main protagonist is a scientist and medical entrepreneur named Alex Pella who is cast in the same mold as a Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos. During the story, Martino ties Lesmana to a citizenry with a near-brainwashed level of euphoric fanaticism. From my perspective, that connection closely followed the bizarre euphoria that followed Obamas supporters after 2008. I never understood that  hes just a politician, not the Second Coming. Calm down, people. Anyway

Martino does an excellent job of bringing the reader into the panic that surrounds The Disease and, particularly, the desperation that Pella and his team feel as they try to find a cure before its too late. Unlike many recent releases in the thriller genre, The New Reality brings the reader a fast-paced, action-packed adventure that moves as fast as you can flip a page. There are no long, drawn out segments of the book to bore you to tears. Instead, Martino writes in a style closely resembling that of Dan Brown and Harlan Coben. And that is the style that this story needs to be told in because of the amount of movement that the characters experience during the story. One chapter takes place in America while the next chapter takes place in a high-tech, super-fast airplane while the following chapter might be in Israel or somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula. If you like reading a strong thrill of the chase novel that actually has a significant story to tell, then this is the one for you. And watch out for the storyline extension at the end of the novel  itll leave you hungry for the next book in the Alex Pella series!

The New Reality is the perfect book to read while you're laying on the beach this summer, too. As Ive noted, the story moves quickly and Martino moves the core discussion along in each chapter. You won't be left waiting for dozens or hundreds of pages to find out why a certain character said something in a prior chapter  the answers are given to you as fast as you can read them and put the pieces together. Martinos experience as a neurologist certainly plays into his ability to write a strong medical-based thriller. If you're a fan of this genre, looking for a great book to read this summer, and/or just looking for a book that has characters with depth, a story with resonance, and a real lesson to teach todays political leaders, then The New Reality is for you. Plus, based on the high level of quality in his first novel, I think well be seeing more of Martino in the literary world. Give the Alex Pella story a shot  I really think that you will enjoy it. I definitely did!
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Marc Portman code name Watchman is a freelance covert operative hired by the CIA to escort a state official out the Ukraine which has just become one of the hottest spots for an U.S. Official. From the start he believes he is being sold out or at least his mission is being undermined but by whom. Can he trust his minders at Langley or does the problem lie elsewhere? This is a classic spy thriller where there any many interests in play at any one time and the spy is always left out in the cold. It is not a complex book but is very entertaining for the spy thriller enthusiast. The writing is clear and concise, which I personally like. You are never left hanging for too long and answers are available for most of the plot, but it still feeds your imagination as to what it must be like in these impossible situations.
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This has been my first read this year. I came to this book without reading any previous work for the author. I wanted to discover a book on my own without being led by the bestsellers charts. I even didn't read the blurb to make sure I got all the suspense. And to tell the truth, its quite thrilling to discover a good book on your own. This has been quite an interesting thrill. It caught my interest right from the start.
Jammer Davis, having a great experience in Air Force is now an expert in investigating aircraft accidents. He is assigned by his boss (and good trusted friend) to investigate the disappearance of a regional jet in Colombia. Shocked to know that his daughter was one of the passengers on this jet, he rushes to Bogota to find out what has really happened. With two passengers missing, he is torn between the hope that his daughter might still be alive, and the despair that he won't see her again.
In a series of events, he realizes that there is something more to this investigation. The Colombian police are interfering and things are not going as they should. More to that he feels he is being monitored.
As the plot unfolds, there is a major twist, a huge secret that someone is willing to do his best to keep it hidden.
It is a fast paced action thriller with a mystery in its folds. The choice of the location  Colombia  by the author was very successful. It added to the darkness of the situation being alone, desperate and away from his own country in a land where the rules Davis is used to did not apply any more. Its also well written. I loved Wards storytelling style.
Having said that, the thriller still missed a star from my point of view. Some parts had excess use of technical aircraft terms. I guess the reason for this was that the author himself is an expert in this field. He just felt it goes without saying. However, to a nontechnical reader in this field this was a distraction. Luckily it wasn't a major one. I just managed to go on. Also, though the thriller was really interesting it just had the common building blocks of the usual action thriller: the experienced ex-military, the missing girls, and the hidden secret.
Finally, I recommend this book for readers who are interested in action thrillers. Its interesting, fast paced and well written.

**Special thanks to NetGalley and Oceanview Publishing for supplying my copy of this book in exchange for an honest and unbiased review **
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Less than 48 hours after picking up "The Hundredth Man" I was thinking this has to be a new best seller and should hold first place much like the "Da Vinci Code".  Jack Kerley's debut is a fast paced action thriller/mystery much like Harlen Coben or James Patterson, but with a southern flavor all it's own.  Set in Mobile, Alabama, "Cars", Carson Ryder, the main detective with his partner Harry Nautilus form the special serial crimes unit, PSIT (P_ss It) for short.  While bodies are piling up without heads, the team is getting harrassed by a fellow cop superior with political ambitions that don't coincide with Cars' attitude toward solving the case.  Cars is fond of a couple of lookers in the morgue that slice and analyze his customers and both have problems that Carson gets involved with but notably endearing is his solution to help Ava Cavanelle who captures the attention of the reader throughout the book in varying degrees of ahhh haa. And too there's Carson's older brother Jeremy that rescues him early on by taking care of their abusive father, and becoming himself a serial killer, who assists Cars in ways that will chill you when you learn the price little brother has to pay.  This book definitely has some new twists and new ideas clinging to the tried and true formula of the detective/thriller/mystery genre.  If you're looking for that book to take to the beach or something to curl up with for pure entertainment and a really good time, "The Hundredth Man" should be at the top of your list.  I think you may have the same opinion as I after reading this one.  Jack Kerley is a name to add to our list of new Favorite Authors to watch and read.
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One of the best thrillers I have read in a while. I cannot wait for the next one. It is told in three parts. Reader thinks who is bad and who is good and then all changes and the reader is confused. There is never good and bad clearly stated. The commandant Verhoeven is not a typical cop and his team is somewhat intersting, but I liked him a lot. His personal life is interesting as well, the fact his mom was a great painter added to the story and how he felt about her and his life. Alex is...., yes, this is the main question who really Alex was, was she a victim or not. I loved it and it was written is a very engaging way. I could not stop.
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i enjoyed the book  it was  a fast read, meaning  don't want to stop reading  until the end...  i would reccomend this to anyone who likes  fast paced thrillers.
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I read one of David Bishop's books, and then ordered all the rest of them, I like that it has a nice feel to it
for anyone that likes a good thriller  the story has to have a ebb and flow to it that builds to the end with just enough
hints to give to who the bad guy is.
and I found all that in this book and the ones that follow.
James LaRue
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Reminds me of James Patterson!  Fast, engaging, cannot put it down!!! Sometimes creepy, icky but always draws you in!!!  Recommend highly this Thriller!!!! Ready for the next chapter!!!
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Thoroughly enjoyed this fast paced novel, the author weaves a tale of a determined serial killer who is fixated on playing mind games with the lead detective. An easy, enjoyable read that you will find hard to put down !!
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Excellent thriller, with some parts the feel a bit william Gibson'sih. But the author has is own style, utilizing today's fast paced cutaway style, but unlike the populist press, he finishes each chapter before he cuts.  Ronco has been a senior executive in lots of technology firms and he has a deep cross discipline knowledge. But you won't need his depth of knowledge to really enjoy this book.  I really liked it and read it in basically teo sittings.  This is a great coast  to coast plane ride book. You may not be abble to put it down.. I found his scenario on stock market disarray very prescient!.
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I very much enjoyed this fast paced thriller and would highly recommend. I agree with one of the other reviewers, who said it had a little bit of a Saw (the movie) element. There were twists you didn't see coming and you couldn't help but be at the edge of your seat as you read - at least I couldn't!  This book is a quick and entertaining read and anyone who is fan of mysteries and thrillers will enjoy the ride.