Sooley
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781529368000
After writing many books that feature action in a courtroom, John Grisham’s latest novel, Sooley, sees him taking the action to a different court - the basketball court.
coolreads# The Deserter
The Deserter
Author: Nelson DeMille
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780751565768
Nelson DeMille’s The Deserter is co-written with his son Alex and it takes place in Venezuela. In itself a tragic story of greed and corruption, especially in a country with enormous petroleum assets, the book offers an interesting insight into the tumultuous political situation there.
coolreads# The Message
The Message
Author: Mai Jia (Translated by Olivia Milburn)
Publisher: Head of Zeus
ISBN: 9781789543025
The scene is set at the height of World War II and Japan rules over China. In the beautiful city of Hangzhou, a puppet government propped up by the Japanese is waging an underground war against the Chinese resistance movement.
coolreads# Eldest Son and the Making of Modern China
Eldest Son
and the Making of Modern China
Author: Han Suyin
Publisher: Pimlico
ISBN: 9780712674157
Zhou Enlai was one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century. Always overshadowed by the more visible and charismatic Mao Zedong during their time together, Zhao and his extraordinary accomplishments remain little recognised outside China where he is still held in high regard as the father of the modern nation.
coolreads# Sting of the Wasp
Sting of the Wasp
Author: Jeff Rovin
Publisher: St Martin’s Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781250156914
In Jeff Rovin’s sixth entry in the thriller series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, US President Wyatt Midkiff disbands the Op-Center because its director, Chase Williams, and his staff failed to detect a major terrorist attack, resulting in the bombing of Manhattan’s floating Sea - the Air and Space Museum - aboard the USS Intrepid. The perpetrator is a Middle Eastern mastermind whose previous terrorism plot was foiled by the Op-Center.
coolreads# Lost
Lost
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Arrow Books
ISBN: 9781787461932
Then the story shifts to Hanna Greete’s perspective. The woman runs a human trafficking ring in Amsterdam and she needs to pay back a debt to the Russian mob Emile Rostoff. However, her plans are derailed when Hans gets arrested.
coolreads# Written in Blood
Written in Blood
Author: Chris Carter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781471179600
The plot for this thriller is simple. But as the story pans out, it gets complicated and scary. There’s a serial killer on the loose and he writes down details of what he has done. Unfortunately, his diary is stolen by a skilful pickpocket in a club. And the diary eventually ends up with the police.
coolreads# The Red Book
The Red Book
Author: James Patterson & David Ellis
Publisher: Century
ISBN: 9781529125375
The Red Book begins with a notorious K-Town drive-by shooting in Chicago that takes the lives of three gang members and two innocents. One of the innocents is a woman who appears to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; the other is a young girl who was killed by a stray bullet.
coolreads# A Time for Mercy
A Time for Mercy
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781529342321
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781529342321
John Grisham’s novel A Time for Mercy is timely as it explores the ways that violence committed by or against law enforcement officials can complicate the pursuit of justice. In this book, he brings back Jake Brigance, the small-time legal eagle star.
coolreads# The Kaiser’s Web
The Kaiser’s Web
Author: Steve Berry
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781529363951
Cotton Malone, a former Justice Department operative who finds solace and succour in an antique bookstore in Denmark, once again teamed up with his love interest/colleague, and international agent, Cassiopeia Vitt in yet another exciting adventure in Steve Berry’s 16th novel of the series. The Kaiser’s Web is full of intrigue, political banter, and historical “what ifs” in the middle of an important election in Germany.
coolreads# The Sixth Man
The Sixth Man
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Pan Books
ISBN: 9781529019193
In a war against terrorism and to keep Al-Qaeda zealots, megalomaniac North Koreans with nukes and other bad guys at bay, the United States intelligence agency engages gigabytes of real-time intelligence stream to the Wall, there to be collated and conceptualised by one man - the Analyst.
coolreads# For Special Services
For Special Services
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9781398701236
The action starts the moment you open the book to read. Air traffic controller Frank Kennen finds himself in a crisis - the radar displays three red zeros, the signal for a hijack. After 95 tense seconds without any response from the plane, Kennen finally receives the all clear from the captain.
coolreads# Circle of Death
Author: Chris Ryan
Publisher: Coronet
ISBN: 9781529333534
Former SAS operatives John Porter and John Bald are engaged by their MI6 bosses for a secretive and dangerous mission in Venezuela. They are joining up with a small group of ex-US Navy SEALS to rescue a kidnapped academic accused of spying and who’s being held amidst the political chaos there. The British government wants her back, but they also want a wholly deniable operation, which is where Bald and Porter come in.
coolreads# Hunter Killer
Hunter Killer
Author: Brad Taylor
Publisher: Head of Zeus
ISBN: 9781838937744
This time around Hunter Killer takes Pike and Jennifer Cahill, his partner in work and in life, into South America on a mission of revenge. The book gets off to a fiery start when an attempt made on Pike’s life at his home in Charleston, South Carolina, fails. However, it results in the fiery death of one of his closest friends.
coolreads# Total Control
Total Control
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Pan Books
ISBN: 9781529019216
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Pan Books
ISBN: 9781529019216
In this gripping thriller, David Baldacci pits a young widow against corporate villains who want her silenced at all costs. When her husband Jason apparently dies in the aircrash of a jet bound from Washington to L.A., Sidney Archer's near-perfect world implodes.
coolreads# King and Maxwell
King and Maxwell
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Pan Books
ISBN: 9781529019209
King and Maxwell is the 6th in the Sean King & Michelle Maxwell political thriller series by David Baldacci. Sean and Michelle are two ex-secret service agents, turned private investigators. However the cases they usually take on are not the typical PI cases. Their cases always involved national security, with their clients who are either high profile or surrounded by deep and dangerous secrets.
coolreads# Saving Faith
Saving Faith
Author: David Balacci
Publisher: Pan Books
ISBN: 9781529019223
David Baldacci's new thriller features a renegade CIA faction attempting to reassert the agency's supremacy over the FBI by manipulating members of Congress who fund both outfits. To do this, the CIA conspirators aim to take over a bribery scheme they've discovered.
coolreads# Walk the Wire
Walk the Wire
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Pan Books
ISBN: 0781509874538
The FBI’s consultant, former cop and football player Amos Decker and his partner Alex Jamison are assigned to investigate a murder in rural North Dakota, a few miles from the Canadian border. The victim’s grisly remains were discovered on the cold, stark Great Plains by a hunter tracking a wolf. She had been butchered and her skin peeled back as if she had been autopsied.