Category Archives: Adventure
JOURNEY OF THE PHARAOHS – Clive Cussler & Graham Brown
Another NUMA FILES adventure, and so far they have not palled. As usual, Kurt Austin spends his holidays searching for lost or hidden treasure, and when this activity coincides with work, it is a bonus. Austin and colleague and best … Continue reading
Tom Clancy’s CODE OF HONOUR – Marc Cameron
A tip top yarn to prove that Marc Cameron has really filled the boots of Tom Clancy and his President Jack Ryan cast of characters. I seriously feared for the floundering of this series through a lack of maintenance by … Continue reading
The EYES of the NAKED – Litha Hermanus
For world-wide readers, indeed also for a lot of South Africans in whose country this novel is set, the backstory will be an eye-opening look into the culture and traditions of Xhosa people on the one hand and urban black … Continue reading
TRIBES OF HILLBROW – Peter J. Earle
A JIM NESBITT BOOK REVIEW When you open one of Peter J. Earle’s novels, get ready to be swept up in a panoramic tour of South Africa after apartheid and Mandela. This is the author’s home country and he captures … Continue reading
THE TITANIC SECRET – Clive Cussler & Jack du Brul
An Isaac Bell adventure, #11. If you shut down your recall of previous Dirk Pitt or Isaac Bell adventures and enjoy this as a pretended one-off, you will probably enjoy it more. Visiting an excavation near New York to catch … Continue reading
The RIVER MURDERS – James O. Born & James Patterson
James O. Born may be the “lesser” of this author combo, but I’ve put his name first as this three-story interlink is quite un-Patterson. And that is not always a bad thing as the thriller factory does not always churn … Continue reading
FINAL OPTION – Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison
(Oregon Files #14) When a powerful and vengeful man hellbent on destroying Juan Cabrillo, Chairman of the Corporation and Captain of the tramp steamer, the high-tech Oregon, builds a ship identical to the Oregon, and which is just as well … Continue reading
WHATEVER IT TAKES – Andy McNab
In some ways, this is a diversion from what I expect from Andy McNab in that the main character is less of a hardbitten hero than his usual characters. But that probably made him more human for me. I expect … Continue reading
THE GIVER OF STARS – Jojo Moyes
Brilliant. Sometimes I regret sticking to crime fiction, and this is one of those times. Well, someone dies and someone goes to prison, but that’s not really what this enchanting story is about. Meeting handsome American, Bennett Van Cleve, touring … Continue reading
THE SECOND SLEEP – Robert Harris
An interesting concept; eight hundred years have passed since the scientific IT revolution collapsed in about 2025. With the world, then, so over-populated that when electricity and IT failed, thousands starved and millions from the cities overwhelmed the countryside in … Continue reading
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