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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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Here we are at the end of March, the end of the first quarter of 2023. Nancy and I have been trying to take advantage of the beautiful weather by spending time outdoors whenever possible. Last night, twenty days after the fact, we celebrated our fifty-first anniversary at Café Coconut Cove in Melbourne Beach. We…