Thirty-five years ago, Wilde was found living alone in the woods at an age doctors estimated to be between six and eight years old. He had no memory of his parents. After his rescue, Wilde was raised by foster parents. The book opens with Wilde who is over 40 years old.
coolreads# Retro Books# The Moscow Vector
The Moscow Vector
Authors: Robert Ludlum & Patrick Larkin
Publisher: Orion Books
iSBN: 9780752877020
Year Published: 2005
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, many believe that Robert Ludlum and other spy craft authors would quietly fade away, since they have no credible villain to frame a novel around. These sceptics forgot that evil always exists and that it merely takes on different forms.
coolreads# Retro Books# The Eden Prophecy
In southern Iran in 1979, archeologists Ahmad Bashir and Peter McKenzie discovered a copper scroll similar to that which was found among the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. Bashir believes this scroll could be 7,000 years old, but whatever secrets it may hold, they are lost as quickly as they were found as a sudden storm sweeps the scroll from Bashir's hand as he tried to escape the pursuing jihadists on the back of a lorry and within minutes, it disappears beneath the vastness of the desert sand.
coolreads# A Line to Kill @definitelybooks
British author Anthony Horowitz’s latest offering, A Line to Kill, is a sequel to The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death. This third entry in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series follows narrator Anthony Horowitz as he accompanies former Detective Daniel Hawthorne to a literary festival.
coolreads# 1979 @definitelybooks
Val McDermid’s 1979, the first in a planned five-book series set at 10-year intervals up to the present, is the story of Allie Burns, a young woman from a working-class Fife family who has a job as a reporter on a Glasgow tabloid, Glasgow Daily Clarion. She has a degree from Cambridge, a clear moral compass and a boundless determination to succeed in a man’s world. She knows what she’s up against - a woman in a Neanderthal’s world.
coolreads# Retro Books#. The Cassandra Compact
The Cassandra Compact
Authors: Robert Ludlum & Philip Shelby
Publisher: Harpercollins
ISBN: 0007101694
Year Published: 2001
Robert Ludlum’s The Cassandra Compact with coauthor Philip Shelby, takes off after The Hades Factor, published in 2000, which was his first novel in the new exciting Covert-One series.