A Gift From the Gods by Martin Gunn
A science fiction thriller which isn’t usually my ‘bag’ but I couldn’t put this down. A brisk pace, and an imagination that proves the theory that everything is impossible until it is done – or so Gunn proves in this intriguing novel. It has everything – aliens, gods, Dinosaurs, Nazis, the CIA and let’s not forget the Mafia. This must have had the authors brain whizzing at a rate of knots, but somehow he puts it all into this rock ‘n’ roll of a page turner. Set in 1985 a Nazi cell busies itself attempting to create a Fourth Reich (horrible thought) using – wait for it – technology from a crashed UFO . The hero? One of the rolling eyes brigade – a teenage boy. Give it a try. It’ll make you breathless and it’ll be worth it.
A Gift From the Gods by Martin Gunn. pb pub Matador. Price £10.99
The Doll House by Phoebe Morgan
I find creepy books disconcerting. It’s all right while it’s daylight but then one lies in bed wondering quite what is creaking its way up the stairs. This is rather like that feeling as Corinne’s dream of children seems to be imploding after a series of failed IVF attempts.
Then – oh crikey – she starts to find pieces of a dolls house turning up. Not only that, but as they accumulate and furniture is included she realises that it is a replica of her house. is she being stalked? How long has this been going on? What do ‘they’ want…
It’s the stuff of nightmares. Stalking, waiting, not knowing is haunting. Not to be read in bed.
The Doll House by Phoebe Morgan. pb pub HQ £7.99
Mission Critical by Mark Greaney comes with a quote from Lee Child… ‘Hard, fast and unflinching – exactly what a thriller should be.’
I concur, and thought it would make a fabulous film. Would there be room for little old me?
Court Gentry’s flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. They want to kick Gentry off the flight but are overruled by CIA headquarters. Thank heavens thank heavens… The mystery man is being transported to England where a joint CIA/M16 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley.
When they land in an isolated airbase in the UK, they are attacked by a hostile force and the prisoner is kidnapped. Only Gentry escapes. His handlers send him after the attackers but what can one operarative do against a trained team of assassins?
Oh the bliss of it. Can’t you just see it. Bruce Willis to the rescue, but – perhaps someone younger? No, no, Bruce…
Fabulous book, love every minute, and somehow not dark, no awful shadows to infiltrate one’s dreams. Just great thrills, suspense, turn the page, quick quick. Loved it – please, please – deserves to be a film.
Mission Critical by Mark Greaney pub Sphere Large pb £14.99 and ebook.