Blades upon Books - Traditionals

5K Qs said:
José, here's a photo of a statue of Cervantes I saw while visiting Toledo with my daughter 10 years ago:
XtAe7Ax.jpeg
Click to expand...

Thank you very much Gary, for the information and photo.👍
 
My wife read this book recently, and since I could remember almost nothing about it even though I know I read it many years ago, I also reread it. It was an enjoyable story about a Russian sailor killed at the docks in Duluth, MN whose death was investigated by the protagonist, Lucas Davenport, of the Prey series. He was assisted and observed by a female Russian cop or intelligence agent.
hHK8cxa.jpeg


- GT
 
DaveHS said:
One of the great popular fiction series heroes. Those books vary but never disappoint.
Click to expand...
Totally agree, Dave. :thumbsup::cool:
I've been a Sanford fan since he started writing novels. I think I usually enjoy the Virgil Flowers novels more than the Davenport novels; Lucas usually seems wound too tight for my taste, while Virgil is more laid back. Also, I grew up a farm kid, and the rural or small town settings of many of Virgil's stories seem more familiar to me than the urban settings in many of the Prey books. I've read both of Sandford's novels featuring Lettie Letty Davenport, Lucas' adopted daughter, and a "joint novel" featuring Lucas and Lettie Letty, but she seems awfully trigger-happy and gun-centric to me; it's like when adult Lettie Letty is in the story, Sandford starts channeling his inner Stephen Hunter. (I love many of Hunter's books about various generations of Swagger men, but guns are almost always major "characters" in them.)
ETA: Looks like I can't even remember how to spell Letty's name. o_O

- GT
 
Last edited:
5K Qs said:
Totally agree, Dave. :thumbsup::cool:
I've been a Sanford fan since he started writing novels. I think I usually enjoy the Virgil Flowers novels more than the Davenport novels; Lucas usually seems wound too tight for my taste, while Virgil is more laid back. Also, I grew up a farm kid, and the rural or small town settings of many of Virgil's stories seem more familiar to me than the urban settings in many of the Prey books. I've read both of Sandford's novels featuring Lettie Davenport, Lucas' adopted daughter, and a "joint novel" featuring Lucas and Lettie, but she seems awfully trigger-happy and gun-centric to me; it's like when adult Lettie is in the story, Sandford starts channeling his inner Stephen Hunter. (I love many of Hunter's books about various generations of Swagger men, but guns are almost always major "characters" in them.)

- GT
Click to expand...
Totally with you on the Virgil Flowers novels. Haven’t read new Lettie books! I’m sending you DM.
 
Last edited:
I read this JFK assassination book in early September. It's a recent book by Robert Tanenbaum, a famous homicide prosecutor in New York County when he was in his prime, and a quite prolific author of mystery/thriller fiction featuring a protagonist named Butch Karp, who seemed to be kind of a fictional version of the author himself, with many of the novels having plots that were inspired by aspects of Tanenbaum's own real-life cases.

This book seems to be some sort of "last word" from Tanenbaum, who is now quite old, on what he thinks actually happened and whodunnit in the JFK assassination. It's a version of a fairly popular conspiracy theory, and one that Tanenbaum put forth much earlier in one of his novels: (https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/blades-upon-books-traditionals.1472512/page-121#post-22468837)
The format of the book struck me as rather weird, with a little over half of the book devoted to a selective autobiography in which the author tries to convince his readers that he can be trusted. But when he gets to his explanation of the assassination, a major part of his rationale is based on audio tape analysis that was subsequently shown to be unreliable (although the author does not mention this).
HJYYgI6.jpeg


- GT
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top