Blades upon Books - Traditionals

I've read many novels by Joseph Finder and I've enjoyed all of them. His early novels were all "stand-alone" with different characters in each book, but he later started an ongoing series featuring a former soldier named Nick Heller who is a private investigator in the series. This is one I read recently. The focus is on the tensions and intrigues in a family that owns a big pharmaceutical company which made its fortune by manufacturing and promoting opioids. The family members have very different reactions to the many deaths that result from customers abusing the drugs to which they've become addicted. Kind of an Agatha Christie set-up, with a large cast of characters - the family members - together in the family home at which a murder occurs, and Heller has to figure out whodunnit.
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- GT
 
mbkr said:
I've not heard of Gregg Hurwitz, but Karin Slaughter is one of my favorite authors and Lee Child ain't half bad either, and if they like it...
I'm always on the look out for new authors.
Made a note of his name for the next time I'm at the used book store :thumbsup:
P.S. Is it any good? :D
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Me too I'm always looking for a next book. If you like Lee Child, the orphan x series you might like. I've read most of the reaches series.
Yeah they are good read.Theres a few in the series.
 
I'll burn through a Kathy Reichs or Michael Connelly mystery/thriller in a couple of days. Great authors both. I've been working on this one for 4 weeks plus. An epic, and as with all Ken Follett books, thoroughly engaging 👍
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Many of you often may see my white Moomin SAKs in my posts. Today, I have just my regular Super Tink, my XHP Espada XL and it's companion, the toughest slippie since the Douk Douk.
On a copy of Adventures of Moominpapa, a Finnish "Children's Book" (The Hobbit is also originally a children's book.... Being a mix of gen X, Y and Z, I really don't like saying the thing about attention spans but...) that was written around WWII, fun adventurous romp!
 
Many , many moons ago I lived and worked in Seychelles - beginning at the very time of the coup. Was the only time in my life I kept a diary, and if all works out with home life/work, shall retrace my steps soon and want to write a book.

In the meantime, I have purchased some poignant reading material.

 
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This book, published in 1947, is the third in the Black Stallion series. Our hero, Alec Ramsay, is thrilled to receive the Black Stallion's first colt as the gift promised by the Arab chieftain who is the rightful owner of the Black. But Satan, the new colt, lives up to his name: wild, aggressive, vicious, arrogant, willful, unpredictable, and dangerous. Will Alec and his friend Henry, a former nationally known jockey and trainer, be able to break and train Satan before he kills someone?? (They have a lot more patience with the dangerous horse than I would have!)

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5K Qs said:
This book, published in 1947, is the third in the Black Stallion series. Our hero, Alec Ramsay, is thrilled to receive the Black Stallion's first colt as the gift promised by the Arab chieftain who is the rightful owner of the Black. But Satan, the new colt, lives up to his name: wild, aggressive, vicious, arrogant, willful, unpredictable, and dangerous. Will Alec and his friend Henry, a former nationally known jockey and trainer, be able to break and train Satan before he kills someone?? (They have a lot more patience with the dangerous horse than I would have!)

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GT, do you moonlight writing blurbs for the dust jackets and backs of books? 😁

Also, I love the sensational tagline on the cover there. “His name is Satan!” 🤣
 
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black mamba said:
Do we have to tune in next week to find out??? ;)
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Jeff, I don't want the suspense to kill you, so I'll tell you that in the first chapter of the next book in the series, Alec rides Satan to victory in the Belmont Stakes to win the Triple Crown! 😲 😁

btb01 said:
GT, do you moonlight writing blurbs for the dust jackets and backs of books? 😁

Also, I love the sensational tagline on the cover there. “His name is Satan!” 🤣
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Barrett, I could probably do a side gig like you suggest if I restricted myself to writing blurbs for re-issues of juvenile fiction from the 1940s and 1950s. I certainly read plenty of blurbs of that type as a kid. :thumbsup:🤓

The book I'm currently reading, The Black Stallion and Satan, also has a memorable tagline: "A fiery race against death!"
(I haven't taken a photo of the cover yet, but the illustration of Satan and one of his eyes bulging with fright (anger?) is worth looking forward to.)

- GT
 
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