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Book Review: Analogue, a Medical Thriller by Jack Rohrer

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The Bottom Line: A medical thriller that is timely, gripping and actually important. Highly recommended. For terminal cancer patients wishing for an escape from reality, a Las Vegas hospice care facility licensed to administer LSD seems like a godsend. But when a chemistry lab explosion kills a scientist at a local university responsible for manufacturing the hallucinatory drug, local homicide detectives suspect foul play. Among author […]

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Book Review – Rerun: A New Face of Terrorism, by Shawn Raymond Poalillo

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The Bottom Line: A brilliant terrorism thriller centered on the financial system that seems destined for the big screen. Benjamin Aaronson is a stable, successful New York stockbroker with a loving family that he adores. Within days, he has inexplicably shorted the stock of an American burger chain and attempted to bomb three of its restaurants. Department of Homeland Security Special Agent Michael Poe wants

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Book Review: Fast Track To Glory, an Action Thriller by Tomasz Chrusciel

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The Bottom Line: An engrossing archeology thriller crafted in the tradition of Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. When 36-year-old religious history professor Nina Monte is summoned to Germany’s Heidelberg Castle, she becomes just the fifth living person to see images of a the Santa Lucia, a galley that sank during a battle in 1439. To her great surprise, Nina is asked to verify the authenticity

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Book Review: Tell Me A Secret, a Psychological Thriller by Ann Girdharry

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The Bottom Line: A shot of adrenaline that grabs from the first sentence and exhilarates until the last breathless word. “That crazy woman’s there again, right on cue, always in the same place.” So begins Ann Girdharry’s riveting short story about an attractive stranger who appears daily to stare up at a London home. The stranger’s incessant visits have immediate consequences for Jared and Nalini,

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Book Review: He Counts Their Tears, a Psychological Thriller by Mary Ann D’Alto

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The Bottom Line: The Talented Mr. Ripley meets 50 Shades of Grey. Recommended for fans of dark psychological thrillers. Aaron Stein, MD, is a highly regarded fertility specialist at New York’s Harbor Hospital. He’s handsome, charming and financially secure. He’s also a deeply disturbed con man and misogynist who takes pleasure in the deceit and emotional destruction of his female victims. His submissive wife, Ruth,

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NYPD Red 4 by James Patterson

Book Review: NYPD Red 4, a new Crime Thriller by James Patterson

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The Bottom Line: A rock solid crime thriller from one of the best in the business. Say what you will about the fact that James Patterson has published as many as 15 books in a year, and that more than 20 co-authors in fact do much of the writing. Patterson is a business, man, and business is very good. Not surprisingly, the writing in his latest outing also very good.

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Codename Angel by Jason Chapman

Codename Angel, a new Sci-Fi Thriller by Jason Chapman

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When Cambridge physicist Professor Ralph Frederick is summoned to the office of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill he is given a very unusual task. Frederick is put on a top secret committee Codenamed Angel, who’s role it is to investigate flying saucer sightings which have been happening up and down the United Kingdom. Frederick’s world is turned upside down, as a diehard sceptic is soon

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Mobius by Vincent Vale

Book Review: Mobius, a Sci-Fi Thriller by Vincent Vale

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The Bottom Line: Total Recall meets Shutter Island. For fans of sci-fi horror, Mobius could be an intergalactic quest well worth taking. “We’re going to help you rise from the depths of insanity, Theron. You must trust us.” So begins the space saga of Theron Mobius, who wakes to find himself in one of the most twisted sanitariums in literary history. Patients are subjected to

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Book Review: The Short Drop, a Conspiracy Thriller by Matthew FitzSimmons

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The Bottom Line: A jaw-dropping conspiracy thriller layered in shocking political intrigue that you won’t soon forget. A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard—then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency—disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation’s history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession. For legendary hacker and marine Gibson Vaughn, the

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Book Review: The Mind of God, a Sci-Fi Thriller by Bevan Frank

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The Bottom Line: This superb sci-fi thriller with stunning real world research as its basis is unlike any book you’ve ever read. Is there an invisible consciousness that connects all of humanity? What if we could somehow measure it and use it to predict the future? That’s the concept driving The Mind of God, a thriller based on a real-life project by the Institute of

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