Red Storm Rising

Red Storm Rising was the second book written by Tom Clancy, co-written by Larry Bond, and is a standalone novel. It was published in 1986 while the Cold War as still going on. Muslim extremists attack an a large oil refinery and the adjacent oil fields in the Soviet Union, setting them on fire and causing an oil shortage in the Soviet Union which would last at least a few years. Because of that, the Soviet leaders decide that they are going to forcibly take an oil field in the Middle East, but before the can do that, they need to prevent NATO from getting in their way. The only way they know of doing that is by dissolving the NATO alliance by starting a war bin Europe and blaming it on Germany. But does their plan work?

This is a well crafted technothriller with plenty of action. It follows characters in the United States, Iceland, England, Scotland, Belgium, and the Soviet Union and has plenty of action on land, in the air and at sea.

If interested in reading this book, you can purchase it in various formats at the following sites:

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World of Sleuths Rating: *****

(Five out of five stars)

Duplicity

Duplicity is the first political thriller in the Brooke Grant series by Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley. Brooke Grant is a female African-American captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. While serving at the U.S. embassy in London, see sees a suspicious looking character approaching the U.S. Embassy in London carrying a suitcase. After alerting a London police officer, she tackles the suspect and prevents him from setting off a bomb in from of the embassy and gains Brooke popularity in the news in the United States. Meanwhile in the U.S., it is an election year where the incumbent president has stiff competition from a wealthy billionaire that bought his way into the Florida and is trying to do the same thing with the presidential seat with an isolationist platform. To counter it and to win votes, the president decides to open an embassy in Somalia with a vow to help them fight terrorism and assigns Brooke as the military attaché. Just after the newly ambassador arrives to the new embassy, terrorists overrun the embassy, taking everybody, but Brooke hostage who escapes in a disguise. Brook then sets out to free the hostages.

This book is surprisingly good! It was first published in 2015 and has some similarities to the last U.S. Presidential election and even some of the events that currently making the new in the U.S. It is an excellent piece of fiction from the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives!

If interested in reading this book, you can purchase it at the following sites in various formats:

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World of Sleuths Rating: *****

(Five out of five stars)

Along Came a Spider

Along Came a Spider is the first novel in the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. Alex Cross is an African-American psychologist turned Washington, D.C. homicide detective that is called, at the request of the mayor, to assist on the case of the kidnapping of the third grade girl, daughter of a famous actress, along with her best friend and classmate, son of the Secretary of the Treasury, from an affluent private school in Washington, D.C. by a teacher at the school. It turns out that there’s a lot more than meets the eye about the teacher and the kidnapping.

This book has plenty of action throughout the entire story. It show how different agencies mistrust each other even when they’re supposed to be working with each other. Like in most cases, the book is a lot different and much better than the movie with the same title.

World of Sleuths Rating: ****

(Four out of five stars)