A Spy Inside the Castle, the first book in the Ethan Briar series, is a complex spy thriller that centers on Ethan, a disgraced former foreign service officer who is secretly recruited into the Nightshade Program at Castlemartin. Once inside this classified US black site, Ethan becomes an elite private intelligence officer with a unique…
Nemesis is the latest book in the Orphan X series by Gregg Hurwitz, and wow, this one hits differently. I’ve been following Evan Smoak’s journey from the beginning, and while every book is a high-stakes thriller, this time, it’s all much more personal. Evan Smoak, the former Orphan assassin turned Nowhere Man, has always lived…
Kyd’s Game by Marc Rosenberg is a spy thriller focusing on Neil Kyd, a former linguistics professor at Columbia University who the CIA once recruited because he was fluent in several languages, including Arabic, Russian, German, and Spanish. With his skills, he was the perfect candidate for becoming a valuable CIA asset who could work…
Fatally Inferior, the second book in the Dunston Burnett trilogy by Lyn Squire, takes place in 1872, one year after the events of the first book, Immortalised to Death, and also a year after Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man. The story brings us back to the heart of Victorian England, to a society…
In Lone Wolf, the latest installment of the Orphan X series, Gregg Hurwitz takes us back to the world of Evan Smoak. This time, Evan’s adventure starts with a seemingly boring job that should be beneath Evan’s capabilities – finding his niece’s lost dog. Little does he know that this very simple request will put…
Immortalised to Death by debut author Lyn Squire is like a time machine that takes you back to Victorian England, a place filled with secrets and mysteries waiting to be unraveled. The story revolves around the puzzling death of the famous author Charles Dickens. While it was officially declared a heart attack, some believe he…
Prodigal Son is the latest adventure thriller in the Orphan X, aka The Nowhere Man series by Gregg Hurwitz. I’ve followed this series from the very first book, Orphan X, that captivated my interest in 2016. The series features Evan Smoak, an assassin created by the Orphan secret government program that seeks to train lethal…
I normally read traditional thrillers full of action, suspense, and a memorable main character that reads will talk about for years. This main character may or may not have someone he loves. Usually a woman. Enemies of the State by Tal Bauer is the first book in an M/M political thriller that I was not…
Unlike the Iris Johansen Eve Duncan series, her latest release, Chaos, focuses on a new heroine, CIA Agent Alisa Flynn. While I loved Eve Duncan and her family and friends circle, I did start to experience a slight sense of fatigue, so reading about a new fearless female character who equals her male partner in…
Right now we live in some scary times due to the COVID-19 virus, a crisis that has many leaders or countries thinking of removing some of their people’s privacy rights in order to better protect them. But such a drastic decision could lead to nothing short of a dystopian world, which is what The Price…