1/3 of the assasination books
587558
Great book, but w/o the great first-hand testimony that makes "Crossfire" so indispensable. All that you need on the assassination is this book (mostly Groden), Groden's photo essay "The Killing of a President", and Marr's "Crossfire".
3760286
Let me just say that books 1, 2 and 3 make one fine book. Too bad the author or publisher felt it necessary to stretch it into three. Not one issue was resolved at the end of "Seven Sisters" or "Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters". All the resolution is in book 3. First book is free - two and three you have to pay for. Pretty good deal for them, not the reader.
4618412
It was very good,  but I can see why so many readers were upset with how the books were split up. All 3 of the books could have been put in 1 or 2 books.  I enjoyed them .
4639764
This is the third book in a trilogy. The only trouble is that the three books do not make up a trilogy. The first two books are the first two books in a trilogy but this third book launches into a completely different direction. It's as if the third book was written by a different author. The characters from the first two books become cardboard cutouts in this third book. The purpose they serve is to give name recognition to the new book. The plots and intrigue developed in the first two books are completely abandoned. We are treated to a whole new storyline that introduces three new civilizations that had not appeared in the first two books.
At the end of the third book the author says that this is the story that he really wanted to write. Well he should've written it to begin with. He uses a baseball analogy, he would rather hit a home run than a single. I think in this case as he stood in the batter's box he was actually facing the catcher. I don't think he was really even in the game.
1152316
Very good book. All together it contains all You can know about the assasination.
179793
The book is really 3 books on in one with a central though. It is well written. I liked it because you did not know how it was going to progress from one chapter to the next.
2543903
THE OUTFIT by Richard Stark.

I'm enjoying these stories and find myself wanting to read one right after the other.  Like potato chips, you can't eat just one.  These are about bad guys.  They rob.  They kill.  They don't go to jail.  They're smart.  It's fun to be in this world for a change.  A few times I'm delighted or surprised with something.  I liked the plot in this one.

The narrator John Chancer was ok.

This is book 3 in the 24 book series.  It's about 2/3 or less than a typical novel length.  It's better to read the first three books in order because they have a flow.  In book 1 Parker clashes with the Outfit.  In book 2 Parker gets facial plastic surgery so the Outfit can't find him.  In book 3 the Outfit knows about Parker's surgery, so Parker takes action.

DATA:
Narrative mode: 3rd person.  Unabridged audiobook length: 5 hrs and 7 mins.  Swearing language: Christ used once or twice.  Sexual content: none.  Setting: 1963 various U.S. locations.  Book copyright: 1963.  Genre: noir crime fiction.
1932924
the three books in this bundle are all very similar, I got bored with it by the third book. They were enjoyable, but reading them back to back was a mistake.
4733211
The world has suffereg two very violent suicide bombing attacks. One was in Paris at Avenue des Champs Elysees. This bombing caused 28 deaths. The next bombing takes place in Copenhagen Denmark at the Tivoli Garden. This results in 37 deaths. Gabriel
Allon and his wife Chiara are visiting Covent Garden in London when Gabriel spots a
potential suicide bomber and attempts to shoot him. He is knocked to the ground by
English police personnel. The resulting blast kills 18 people. After being released
he and Chiara return home to Cornwall. He recieves a visit from Uzi Navot from the Office. Adrian Carter of the CIA(National Clandestine Service) wants to meet with Gabriel. Upon arriving at Langley Carter tells Gabriel about the new terror master Rashid al-Husseini who is headquartered in Yemen. He was formerly a paid CIA asset.
He is now the new face of terror in the world. They have no method to locate him.
The Office sends a team over to Langley to research the situation. They discover
that Husseini has the services of Malik al-Zubair. He was a Hamas who moved his show to Iraq. Gabriel contacts Sara Bancroft who in turn contacts Zoe Reed. Ree sets
up a meeting between Nadia al-Bakari. Allon had previously assassinated her father
Abdul Aziz Bakari. He was a Saudi billionaire who bankrolled terrorists. Nadia was
now the CEO of AAB holdings a huge investment company. Wanting to cut her ties to terrorism from the past she agrees to aid Allon. Nadia makes contact with Samir Abbas
of TransArabian Bank in Zurich. After this contact another meeting is arranged in Dubai. This begins the battle to catch Husseini and Malik al-Zubair. This brings an exciting conclusion to a very good book.
3558538
I enjoyed the stories (3).  Lots of reading in one book.  It was o.k.
2165447
This fist book of the trilogy was a great read. Kevin Anderson had a lot to live up to for readers who were finished with the Timothy Zahn trilogy. This first book was exciting and a great read however, the two remaining books were not as good. I found that I was skipping whole pages because it was pointless information or content that was read earlier in the book. Mr. Anderson seemed to be filling space with the remaining books by writing the same details over and over again. This book I give five stars but book 2 I give 2 stars and book three I give 4 stars.
3515365
Three of the five books were quite enjoyable, and therefore received three stars. However, contained in the other stories were profanity, rape, witchcraft, and multiple graphic murders. I stopped reading because of this . . . Wasn't my idea of Christian fiction.
4018749
I am going to start this review backwards, but please bear with me. First the Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century (or World War II) is a series of paperback books. Each book is around 160 pages and devoted to specific topic with illustrations. Each book is written by an expert on the book's topic. The topics of the books are weighed more to land actions than sea and air. Further there is lack of coverage about Marines in the Pacific; it should be weapon book onto itself. So each book in my opinion is a worth three stars. The WHOLE series is five stars or better. I have 20 out of 27 plus of "War Leader" books, 31 out of 31 plus "Battle Books", 24 out of 28 plus of "Campaign" books, 44 out of 44 plus of "Weapons" books, 4 out of 10 plus of "Politics in Action" books and 2 out of 3 plus of "Human Conflict". I am not bragging about my collection, but to give idea about the number of books.  The series is excellent about two world wars plus how the cold war started and should be rank at six or more stars. Now about Stauffenberg - War leader Book is rated three stars but it fills in piece of missing history for me. I have wonder how a person who fell that Hitler was kind of god or demigod to turn on his idol and try to kill him.
4455573
Even tho he was a Democratic-republican. The problem is trying to get all 3 books of the same edition. The same problem holds true for the Pomeroy Editions. But Forgotten Books, even with some of it shortfalls (e.g., said regard) is an absolutely awesome company. Law Books are generally priced so high that people unable to ruthlessly exploit the various depredations and misfortunes the masses are destined to suffer in our society at the hands of avaricious greed mongers and psychopaths (redefined under the New Conservatism as 'healthy opportunists') could never afford them. In fact, there was a time when persons without a license to practice law were absolutely forbidden from buying them from the monopoly of publishers that charge fortunes for them. I even had a lawyer object to a Judge "Your Honor this is very prejudicial, Mr. ___ has law books" !!
4376041
The author has been published since 1974 (non-fiction, paranormal fiction and mysteries) so I knew I had a winner before getting this book. After reading this 5th in a series of 6 books I bought the other 5.

We first met federal agent Alexandra LaDuca in the RUSSIAN TRILOGY, she's smart, tough and cool under fire.  In `Conspiracy in Kiev' working with the U.S. Treasury she travels to the Ukraine to track a Russian-Ukrainian mobster named Yuri Fedrov during a visit by the American president. In `Midnight in Madrid' she tracks down stolen artwork laden with mysteries, legends and claims of supernatural power. `Countdown in Cairo' she investigates a former mentor who was believed to be dead and is caught in a double cross.

Alexandra returns in `THE CUBAN TRILOGY'. In `HOSTAGE IN HAVANA' the U.S. Treasury Agent, recovering from the tragic loss of her fianc a year before, leaves her Manhattan home on an illegal mission to Cuba to solve a decades-old mystery, recover a large amount of cash and return an American fugitive to the US. With her is Paul Guarneri, a Cuban-born exile who lives on the fringe of the law. Released in May 2012  `MURDER IN MIAMI' Alex is in Miami to continue her investigations into the Dosi cartel's drug fueled money laundering.

I am a practicing Catholic and not one for the Christian fiction genre. However I didn't feel like the author was hitting me over the head with religion of any faith.

The one thing I missed was a WOW ending. I am not sure I am saying this accurately but to me it seemed not enough show and depended all on the telling.
915009
I have only read books 1,2, 3 and 7 about the Steele brothers. They're basically all the same;  I stopped reading them after the 4th book, they got boring!!
2665385
Gone Girl pissed me off. There HAS to be a follow up.  All three books are amazing.