coolreads # Retro Books # Chinese Lessons

Chinese Lessons

Author: John Pomfret

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

ISBN: 9780805076158

Year Published: 2006

These days, visitors to China will be captivated by the breathtaking sights and dazzling high-rise buildings as well as the high speed rails and magnificent flyovers of Shanghai, Beijing and other big cities in China. Or being greeted upon arrival at the new Beijing Daxing International Airport. The amazing transformation and development of the People’s Republic over the past decades can have an intoxicating effect of obscuring the contradictions and truths, especially of its past.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Chaos Agent

The Chaos Agent

Author: Mark Greaney

Publisher: Berkley

ISBN: 9780593548141

Futuristic robots take centre stage in the Gray Man’s latest thriller, The Chaos Agent. Courtland Gentry aka The Gray Man and Zoya Zakharova are lovers trying to enjoy a peaceful hideaway by Guatemala’s beautiful Lake Atitlán when a tiny drone with facial recognition capabilities tracks them down.  A worldwide manhunt is out for them, and Russia has a capture-or-kill order out on Zoya.

coolreads # Retro Books # Spartan Gold

Spartan Gold

Authors: Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood

Publisher: Penguin Books

ISBN: 9780141042916

Year Published: 2009

Clive Cussler introduces Sam and Remi Fargo in Spartan Gold, which is the first book in the Fargo Adventures series.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Striker

The Striker

Authors: Clive Cussler and Justin Scott

Publisher: Penguin Books

ISBN: 9781401911399

The Striker promises to thrill Isaac Bell fans with yet another action-packed story of his exploits as a young Van Dorn Agency detective. Set in the coal-mining hills of West Virginia and Pennsylvania at the turn of the century, Clive Cussler depicts the struggles between budding labour unions and management. Union organisers begin to see the benefits of verbal negotiations to improve wages and working conditions. But some greedy owners maintain the upper hand because they control the purse strings, buy Pinkerton detective protection, and control the transportation of coal.

coolreads # Retro Books # Gunmetal Gray

Gunmetal Gray

Author: Mark Greaney

Publisher: Berkley Books

ISBN: 9780425282854

Year Published: 2017

Gunmetal Gray by Mark Greaney is an engrossing and suspenseful thriller. Greaney definitely has upped the intensity of his plot and put his characters through more grilling challenges.