Showing posts with label English Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English Fiction. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

A Delicate Truth By, Le Carre, John

A Delicate Truth By, Le Carre, John. A Delicate Truth, Le Carré’s new novel, opens in 2008, in Gibraltar, the site of a British-American counter-terrorism operation called Operation Wildfire. The opening chapter is seen through the eyes of a British diplomat whose faith in his bosses and eagerness to be seen as committed to anti-terrorism mark him as a guileless company man, fated to fall upward as a reward for not asking too many questions. Three years later, this aging innocent’s composure is ruffled by Toby Bell, a rising young foreign servant who is “that most feared creature of our contemporary world: a solitary decider.” (Using one of George W. Bush’s favorite self-descriptive nouns is probably not a coincidence.) When Toby, who is working on a novel in his spare time, compares notes with the now-retired diplomat, who is closer in age to the 81-year-old Le Carré, the effect is less reminiscent of Butch and Sundance and more as if the former intelligence officer Le Carré is writing a fantasy about both his younger self and the man he might have become if he’d stayed in the game and never wised up.

12th of Never By, James Patterson

 12th of Never By, James Patterson. It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor--while two killers are on the loose.  Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career.

Dead Ever After By, Charlaine Harris

DEAD EVER AFTER, Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for thirty years.  She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She began to write books a few years later. Her later books have been in the urban fantasy genre. She is best known for The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, otherwise known as The Sookie .