coolreads # Retro Books # Killing Floor

Killing Floor

Author:  Lee Child

Publisher: Putnam

ISBN: 9780553826166

Year Published: 1997

Killing Floor is the first book in the bestselling Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It introduces Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop who now lives off the grid and doesn't even carry a mobile phone. He doesn't own a vehicle either. And he doesn't have a middle name. Ever since Reacher left the military, he's been travelling around the country on foot with only the clothes on his back.

coolreads # Retro Books # Red War

Red War

Author: Kyle Mills

Publisher: Atria

ISBN: 9781501190599

Year Published: 2018

The 17th thriller adventure in the series started by the late Vince Flynn and the fourth by Kyle Mills after he took over, features Mitch Rapp trying very hard to prevent a war.

coolreads # On Making A Difference - The Joyful Journey of An Educationist

On Making A Difference -

The Joyful Journey of An Educationist

Author: Tan Boon Lin

Publisher: Areca Books

ISBN: 9789675719509

On Making A Difference, the autobiography of Dato Tan Boon Lin offers a candid narrative of an educationist and his passion, both as an educator and administrator, to guide and provide opportunities for other students in the schools where he served as the headmaster. Tan had served, with distinction,  as headmaster at Gajah Berang School in Melaka, Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Kedah and lastly, at Penang Free School, where he was once a student and teacher before assuming the role as its first Asian headmaster.

coolreads # Retro Books # Beloved Enemy

Beloved Enemy

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Publisher: Forge

ISBN: 9780765370815

Year Published: 2013

Beloved Enemy is Eric Van Lustbader’s fifth thriller of his Jack McClure series.

coolreads # Retro Books # Trojan Odyssey

Trojan Odyssey

Author: Clive Cussler

Publisher: Penguin Books

ISBN: 9780425199329

Year Published: 2004

In the Trojan Odyssey, which is the 20th in a series of Dirk Pitt novels, Clive Cussler once again grabs your attention and takes you on another thrilling adventure. This time, the whole gang is back in action.

coolreads # Retro Books # Nothing To Lose

Nothing To Lose

Author: Lee Child

Publisher: Bantam Books

ISBN: 9780739327906

Jack Reacher, the recurring protagonist in the thrillers by Lee Child, is back with a dark mission in book 12 of the series.

coolreads # Retro Books # Serpent, A Novel from NUMA Files

Serpent, A Novel from NUMA Files

Author: Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos

Publisher: Pocket Books

ISBN: 0671022164

This novel, from the NUMA Files, is set mostly in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, and occasionally skirting the border of Guatemala. Not surprisingly, Clive Cussler uses this vicinity to reference one of his favourite underworld characters, Quetzalcoatl, a demonic person who can be blamed for any number of atrocities in the world. 

coolreads # In Too Deep

In Too Deep

Author: Lee Child

Publisher: Delacorte

ISBN: 9780593725801

In this latest edition of the Jack Reacher series, the action and storytelling downshifts to less thrilling mode.

coolreads # Horror, He Wrote: The Lady Under the Bridge

Horror, He Wrote:

The Lady Under the Bridge

Author: Tan Jit Seng

Publisher: Penguin Books

ISBN: 9789815144796

As an award-winning creative director of an advertising agency, Tan Jit Seng started out his passion in writing as the co-creator of Malaysia's first English comic book, Heroines of Darkness, and as a children's book writer, before publishing a compilation of short stories titled Get Spooked: Terrifying Tales Untold.

coolreads # Retro Books # The Mayan Secrets

The Mayan Secrets

Authors: Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry

Publisher: Penguin Books

ISBN: 9781405931342

Year Published: 2013

The Mayan Secrets by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry is the fifth book of 13 in the Sam and Remi Fargo Adventures Series. In this book, the Fargos are on a humanitarian mission to help people in Mexico after an earthquake. They then stumble upon the remains of a man clutching a pot which contains a Mayan codex that is larger than any previously discovered book. This leads them on an adventure to protect the secrets within the codex before a wealthy, greedy woman can claim the codex and all it reveals for herself.