Most of the Nate Heller books are good. This one is very good. I enjoy the characters and the ties to history. Basically, a Forrest Gump/Spencer type of read.

It was an excellent book. A little bit too much language. It got crazy on pg. 140 (read that page). It had a whole bunch of explosive sex. And a whole lot of bloodshed.

THE NEW AVIATION IDENTIFICATION MANUAL FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT:
An Aid For Investigating Aviation-Related Crime

Updated For 2002 in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.

On September 11, 2001, the grim reality of terrorism and additional threats was added to the current and continuing saga in the 'war on drug trafficking and crime'. When terrorists viciously leveled both towers of the World Trade Center complex, it proved to America and the world that unscrupulous terrorist criminals or anyone could use easily accessible aircraft as a new form of destructive weapon. We, as a nation, were shown how airport security could be breached and how long-range, fully fueled passenger aircraft, of any type or size, could be used as flying bombs and as lethal weapons of mass destruction and death anywhere and anytime.

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Writer Mallory's mystery weekend turns out to be a bit more of a challenge than he'd expected. He thinks he'll participate in a weekend of fun and mystery games. On the first night, however, Mallory is gazing out the window and sees a brutal murder. He raises the alarm but the body can't be found! The game goes on as planned, with everyone thinking that what Mallory saw was part of the game. Mallory isn't convinced, though, and he soon finds proof that what he saw was real. A blizzard hits and players and guests are trapped in at Mohonk Mountain House. With a killer? It would seem so!

This is an imaginative story full of suspense and twists. Hero Mallory is Sam Spade with a typewriter.

All important subjects, from the standard model to the string theory, are adequately provided for the students who major in particle theory. I have never imagine that anyone can write these contents in one book of 496 pages

Small book, which leads to fast reading and wide coverage. If entirely new to SEA, provides a quick study on their major concerns. If an old "China" hand, then a good source for references and summary information.

Alan Garner is an extremely underrated fantasy author. Elidor is a perfect example of the magic he can weave. The plot is simple enough - the four Watson children must save the world of Elidor, one step removed from our own. To do this, they are given four magical Treasures that guard Elidor from harm. But doing this may be more trouble than they think...

Garner is a lyrical writer. Such sentences as "The blade was like ice, and the hilt all jewels and fire" would be impressive in even an adult's book. The books have lots of adventure in them for the younger set, and fine prose for adults. I recommend this to all readers, even those that don't like fantasy.

I read this book 18 years ago, when I was 10 years old. It was one of the best books I ever read - as good as Mark Twain's 'Tom Sawyer' or Jules Verne's 'Mistery Island'. But in a way, it was better. The atmosphere of Elidor was magical, dim lit, eerie - something I found only in Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon' or in Stephen King's work. This is definitely a great fantasy book.

Ok, I admit taht when I first read ELIDOR as probably an 11 year old I liked it the least of Garner's books to date. It was "ok" but the idea of a magical fantasy being set in the urban wasteland of post-war Manchester just didn't click. Maybe it is a comment on the last quarter century, maybe it is just a matter of growing up, but going back the book all these years later I found myself absolutely enthralled. Garner makes the transition from everyday life to the realm of Welsh mythology & back seamlessly and flawlessly. His characters are remarkably "real" -even those with "bit parts" like the parents of the protagonists. The language is lyrical, and there are scenes that will haunt you for years. My one complaint is that it is more a "novella" than a novel -at this re-reading I would gladly have kept going for another 200 pages, but what we get is great.

I won't review the story, except to say I've never read anything by Nancy Collins that I didn't like. I would like to point out the typographical errors though, which averaged around two to three per page. If I pay extra for a limited edition, I would like to get something extra, like having a proof reader go over the manuscript before publication. Words were left out, misspelled, etc. An example - "Tony tied to scream..." One or two mistakes I can tolerate, but this book has them to the point of absurdity. The only book, ironically enough, that had more typos, was another by Collins, AVENUE X.

In the 1970s, Alex Rossiter was a rock and roll icon on a par with Hendrix and Joplin. Thanks to drugs, Alex crashed and burned, fading into oblivion unable to get a gig or a recording contract anywhere. He recently resurfaced in New Orleans where he has developed an interest in voodoo and is initiated into a local hanfou by Papa Belovded. Not long afterward, Alex obtains a gig at the Gris-Gris Club.

Alex meets an old friend Jere Sloan and the woman he loves Charlotte "Charlie: Calder. Charlie instantly wants to share sex with the musician. They go home, leaving Jere behind. Alex's brief elation dissipated once he reads "The Aegrisomnia" and becomes involved with the One-Who-Tempts, a shade residing between the living and the dead. The malevolent spirit tempts Alex to surrender his soul and destroy everyone he cherishes.

Nancy A Collins does for voodoo what Anne Rice has done for vampires. The characters are fully developed making them seem authentic though pawns in a cosmic chess game played by essences much older than mankind. TEMPTER is a temptation that horror fans will want to repeatedly reread.

Harriet Klausner

This is the fifth novel that Wilcox wrote featuring Alan Bernhardt, struggling playwright and theatre director, moonlighting as a private-eye and usually getting himself into all sorts of danger. The books, billed as mysteries, are really more suspenseful than mysterious. In this one, Alan Bernhardt is contacted by wealthy, wheelchair-bound billionaire Raymond DuBois, who wants Alan to dispose of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of stolen art, before the FBI closes in. The trick is, several people, working in several competitive little groups, have all been busy tracking the artwork--we're talking a Renoir, a van Gogh, and more--and they would have no scruples about lifting the paintings from Alan's dead body. Alan goes from worrying about DuBois setting him up for some kind of sting, where he takes the fall for handling a lot of hot artwork, to worrying about whether he can keep himself, his lover Paula, and his assistant on the case, Tate, alive while trading the paintings for cash. Naturally, there comes a point where everyone converges on the fourteen invaluable paintings, with intent to walk away with them...and, if possible, walk away with the sackful of money being offered for them too! It would be quite a payday, if not for Alan, then maybe for a shady insurance agent who is out of contact with his employers so he can clean up all by himself, a mystery-woman and her smart-aleck right-hand man (who did not have a problem shooting their way closer and closer to the paintings, before they learned of Alan Bernhardt's involvement), or even Mr. DuBois's loyal chauffeur, James, whom Alan starts to suspect is running his own sting, but hiding it well behind cap and poker-face.

I wish it had been a better book, but author Wilcox never seemed to break through a certain threshold when it came to these Alan Bernhardt crime novels. It's fun rooting for Bernhardt because, as soon as he takes a case, it turns out he's outnumbered, and outgunned, and biting off way more than he can chew. If it's not the Mob--like in the previous, and best, Bernhardt book, Find Her A Grave--it's several cadres of murderous art-thieves who specialize in the double-cross. But the story stays too simple in Full Circle, containing a few too many scenes of strategizing and other conversation. Wilcox presents his always readable style, and is successful at making you wonder just how it's all going to turn out, but when all is said and done, we needed more complications and danger throughout to make this memorable. Just once I would have liked to see Alan Bernhardt really put through the wringer. Full Circle should have gone into overdrive at some point, and it didn't. However, the moral dilemmas Bernhardt must work through, as he deals with stolen paintings that he participates in hiding from the FBI, do make him seem like a real guy in a crazy situation. I just wish it had gotten crazier.