Reviews
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“Independence Square,” Matin Cruz-Smith’s tenth in the Arkady Renko Russian crime series, is no less a masterful work than the first in the series, “Gorky Park.” It continues to baffle me, following the success of “Gorky Park,” in both print and film, that more of Cruz-Smiths work has not been adapted for T.V. or a
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I just finished reading Tosca Lee’s “Demon: A Memoir” and I am blown away, again. This is a great story that grabs you from the very beginning and holds on to you until the very surprising end. Unfortunately I was not familiar with Tosca Lee’s work at the time of the books original release back
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In September of 2002, Simon and Schuster published Martin Cruz-Smith’s novel, “December Sixth”. It is a fictional tale of the preparations made by the Imperial Japanese state to attack Pearl Harbor. We all know, from our annual memorial, what happened on December seventh, 1941. What few of us know, or remember, is the horror that
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Tosca Lee never ceases to amaze, and “The Line Between” is certainly no exception. The book is well written, to Tosca Lee’s high standards, and there are many quotable lines, but I picked this one because it reflects the prophetic nature of her story. In this scene, the main character, a young woman named Wynter,
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The Patrician, by John Galsworthy It took me some time to finish reading this. I have any number of excuses for that. I’m a slow reader, or perhaps just thorough. I don’t get enough time to read and, often when I have time I’m just too tired to make sense of it. I am reading
B. James Wilson 