coolreads # Retro Books # The Miko

The Miko

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Publisher: Granada Publishing

ISBN: 0586056505

Year Published: 1985

When his best friend dies under suspicious circumstances, martial arts expert Nicholas Linnear vows revenge. And while he may look American, Linnear’s childhood spent in the dojos of Japan taught him that vengeance must never be hurried.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Bourne Initiative

The Bourne Initiative

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

ISBN: 9781786694256

Year Published: 2017

Publisher: Head of Zeus

The late Robert Ludlum’s most enduring creation, Jason Bourne, has lived one amazing life - both in the past, where he can’t remember and in the present where he is on the run from his killers.

coolreads# Retro Books # Last Snow

Last Snow

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Publisher: Forge Book

ISBN: 9780765364364

Year Published: 2010

Jack McClure, aide and friend to the US president, is back at work after the death of his daughter and also the resolved kidnapping of President Carson's own daughter, Alli. However, Jack hasn't fully recovered; he's still in mourning and full of self-recrimination.

coolreads# Retro Books # Black Blade

Black Blade

Author: Eric van Lustbader

Publisher: Ballantine Books

ISBN: 0449221962

Year Published: 1993

In New York City, several brutal murders take place while in Washington, a plot conceived at the highest levels of American government is at work to bring the economic might of Japan to its knees.

coolreads# Retro Books # The Marks of Cain

The Marks of Cain

Author: Tom Knox

Publisher: HarperCollins

ISBN: 9780007342617

Year Published: 2010

After his grandfather died, David Martinez, an unattached London media lawyer, finds himself as alone as he’d felt his entire life. He has no other family and knows nothing about his roots. But soon after the funeral, he receives some shocking news: His seemingly poor grandfather has left him $2 million and a strange map, on the condition that he travels to Basque Country to meet with a man named Jose Garovillo.

coolreads# Retro Books # The Eye of God

The Eye of God

Author: James Rollins

Publisher: HarperCollins

ISBN: 9780062330192

Year Published: 2014

The book opens with a compelling synchronicity between the discovery of an ancient prophecy and the last transmission of a Nasa satellite nicknamed The Eye of God, launched to study a comet as it passes close to earth. Before it crashes, the satellite transmits a strange image of the eastern United States as a ruin of smoking craters.

coolreads# Retro Books # The Fifth Gospel

The Fifth Gospel

Author: Ian Caldwell

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

ISBN:9781501105258

Year Published: 2014

The Fifth Gospel is Ian Caldwell's masterful follow-up to his international bestseller The Rule of Four, featuring a lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope's final wish that propels two brothers - both Vatican priests - on a quest to reveal Christianity's greatest historical mystery.

coolreads# Retro Books # The Bourne Objective

The Bourne Objective

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Publisher: Orion Books

IBSN: 9781409117834

Year Published: 2010

The Bourne Objective completes a trilogy revolving around the same mission. Following The Bourne Sanction and The Bourne Deception by Eric Van Lustbader, it picks up the action after Bourne witnessed the murder of his friend/comrade, art dealer Tracy Atherton. It turns out that Tracy was much more than an art dealer, and her involvement in the world of espionage put her in harm’s way, where even Bourne was unable to protect her.

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The Cook

Author: Ajay Chowdhury

Publisher: Penguin Random House

ISBN: 9781787303157

Kamil Rahman, once an up-and-coming detective in the Kolkata police force, is now back – and he’s just been given a promotion, sort of.

coolreads# Retro Books # The Expected One

The Expected One

Author: Kathleen McGowan

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 9780743295345

Katheen McGowan offers readers an intriguing page-turner of a story that combines her real research into the Mary Magdalene history, myth and legend with a plot that is almost as mystifying as a Dan Brown thriller. Suffice to say, it will definitely appeal to readers who want to know more about the controversies surrounding the alleged wife of Jesus and mother of his children.