I Kill by Giorgio Faletti
With its exotic setting — Monte Carlo –, crazed serial killer (a man who skins off his victims’ faces), an FBI agent trying to get over his own personal tragedy called in on the case, a mentally disabled twenty-two-year-old radio station staff mascot and ‘Rain Boy’ who has an amazing ear [...]

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American General, Fbi, Fbi Agent, Giorgio Faletti, Mascot, Memory, Monte Carlo, Music, Novel, Old Radio, Personal Tragedy, Power Mad, Radio Station, Rain Boy, Serial Killer, Skins, Station Staff, thriller

The Bible Salesman: A Novel by Clyde Edgerton
Since the publication of his first novel, “Raney,” in 1985, Clyde Edgerton has become as much a staple of Southern literature as sweet tea is to any meal south of the Mason-Dixon. He continues carving out this geographical niche with his new story about Henry Dampier, a 20-year-old [...]

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Bible Salesman, Book Publishing, Book Reviews, Car Thief, Clyde Edgerton, Fbi, Mason Dixon, Niche, Novel, Raney, Southern Literature, Staple, Stealing Cars, Sweet Tea, Young Man

The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant
In March 1942 Roald Dahl, a British airman who had been severely wounded in battle, was informed that he had been posted to the British Embassy in Washington as an assistant air attache. “When he heard the news,” Jennet Conant writes, [...]

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Air Attache, Airman, Arcamax Publishing, Battlefront, British Embassy, British Spy, Desk Job, Embassy In Washington, Fbi, Irregulars, Jennet Conant, Organization Whose Purpose, Roald Dahl, Spy Ring, Spymaster, State Department, Wartime Washington, Web Of Intrigue, William Stephenson