Drood: A Novel by Dan Simmons
This is an excellent historical thriller that looks closely at the last few years of Dickens’ life using the unfinished final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood and other historical facts as a basis for this wonderful account. The story line grips the audience from Collins’ opening monologue and never [...]
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Drood by Dan Simmons - Review
Dead Reign by T.A. Pratt - Interview
Dead Reign by T.A. Pratt
Fantasy author T.A. Pratt told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Dead Reign, is the third book in his series about Marla Mason, badass sorcerer and protector of the East Coast city of Felport.
“The essential premise here is Marla vs. Death,” Pratt said in an interview. “I knew–as part of [...]
THE LOST SPY: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service by Andrew Meier - Review
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service by Andrew Meier
It concerned an American, Isaiah “Cy” Oggins, who died in Stalin’s gulag. The gift of the Oggins file, even with censored paragraphs, was meant to show that the new Russia would be open, laying bare the dark crimes of the past.
Washington Post Book Reviews [...]
The Lost Spy by Andrew Meier - Review
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service by Andrew Meier
ON THE night of Feb. 20, 1939, three Soviet secret policemen knocked on a door at the Hotel Moskva in the Russian capital, asked to see the (fake) passport of its occupant, gave him a few minutes to gather some belongings and whisked him [...]
