coolreads # Retro Books # Capitol Conspiracy

Capitol Conspiracy

Author: William Bernhardt

Publisher: Ballantine Books

ISBN: 9780345487575

Year Published: 2008

William Bernhardt is well known for his high-powered legal thrillers. In this third novel starring Ben Kincaid as a senator, he has created another suspenseful plot with just the right pace and style.

coolreads # Retro Books # Simple Genius

Simple Genius

Author: David Baldacci

Publiser: Grand Central

ISBN: 9781455550807

Year Published: 2007

This is a Sean King and Michelle Maxwell adventure by David Baldacci. The story opens with Michelle experiencing a breakdown.

coolreads # Retro Books # Treasure

Treasure

Author: Clive Cussler

Publisher: HarperCollins

ISBN: 0007205597

Year Published: 2005

The story starts off in the past when the great Library of Alexandria which housed the knowledge of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman empires as well as those little known civilisations that rose and fell far beyond the shores of the Mediterranean, was ransacked, burned and destroyed by some fanatics after being ordered by the Christian Emperor Theodosius in 391 AD.

coolreads # Retro Books # Agent in Place

Agent in Place

Author: Mark Greaney

Publisher: Berkeley

ISBN: 9780451488909

Year Published: 2018

This is the seventh in the high-powered Gray Man series by Mark Greaney. The book opens with the Islamic State group about to execute Courtland Gentry, also known as the Gray Man and leave his body floating with others shot in the head in a bloody lake. Then the story backs up a week earlier to show how Gentry got into this unholy mess.