David Morrell is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. This is the third book I have read by Morrell and so far it is the best yet. The Shimmer is a very quick read that is hard to put down. This one has a little bit of everything: action, mystery, and sci-fi. The Shimmer is a great bo...
Another great romp by David Morrell. It is nice to see hiom return to the espionage genre one more time. This is a charming., action packed, Christmas time themed spy adventure. Don't let the title throw you off. This is an action packed spy novel you can read at any time of the year. A wond...
(Mystery 2008) An unlikely mix of the Christmas story and an action/undercover spy story, it works on some weird level. Paul/Pyotyr has infiltrated a group of Russian Mafia members working in the US, but breaks character to rescue a kidnapped baby on Christmas Eve. There is also an innocent fa...
Some years ago I picked up The Brotherhood of the Rose and loved it. From there I went to The Fraternity Of The Stone, The Fifth Profession and others. Some of his books I found great, others I had to ask..."is this the same writer?" So his books have run the gamut for me.This one is a good book...
This book was recommended to me. I'd never heard of David Morrell, and if it wasn't recommended, I wouldn't have picked it up. The magic of goodreads. First, it's about an abandoned hotel and about 5 urban explorers looking for archeological finds. That intrigued me immediately. The slang term fo...
I didn't realise till halfway through the book - it's a fast read, and you could reach halfway in an evening - that I'd read it before back in high school a couple of decades back. I reached a scene (a minor character's anecdote) that had struck me as bizarre then and was even weirder this time a...
This is, in fact, book three in a series, but you can read it as a stand-alone book as well. You might not feel as much for the characters if you have not read the other two though. I've read this book before, way back, and then I had read both the other books before, this time I had only seen th...
How do you tell if a book has samurai in it? Don't worry, they'll put a katana on the cover. A book about ninjas is a little harder, since they are invisible to anyone that hasn't just been killed by a ninja. How do you tell if a book is a thriller? Don't worry, they'll put a gun on the cover.Pro...
The Fraternity of the Stone is thriller writer David Morrell's second book in his Mortalis espionage trilogy which began with The Brotherhood of the Rose and ended with The League of Night and Fog. In Fraternity, Morrell explores a theme he touched on in Brotherhood - a professional assassin who ...
Λοιπόόόόν.....Αρχικά αμερικανιά. Κατά τόπους όμως ανατρεπτικό, αγωνιώδες και σε κρατάει σχετικά. Το στόρι έχει ως εξής: ο θανών είναι ένας από τους μεγάλους 5 που καθορίζουν την τύχη του κόσμου. 5 πατρίκιοι της Ανατολικής Ακτής των ΗΠΑ άσκησαν συνεχή επιρροή στην πολιτική της αμερικανικής κυβέρνη...
First Blood, a first read 40 years too late in reading for many. The author starts the story with introducing a name, Rambo and having the reader build an image of this character in mind, he successfully paints the portrait partly introducing Rambo, the long hair, the rough looking image, his sle...
Assumed Identity is an spy thriller that explores the question of identity for a man whose life has consisted for years of being anyone but himself. The action and thriller components of the novel sit right in Morrell's wheelhouse, and the plot is fairly entertaining, but overall it falls short o...
Most (that's "most") of David Morrell's books are what I'd call good to excellent. Like everyone he has a false note how and then, it happens to the best. Of course we actually don't all agree on which of his books ARE the false notes.Anyway...this isn't one of the false notes, it is however a li...
Reading a David Morrell novel is like going to an action movie. If you want a complicated, realistic plot, you've gone to the wrong movie. If you want strong, principled, admirable men, beautiful women and unremittingly evil villains, wrapped up with fast moving action, you've come to the right ...
”In Greek mythology, the god of love once offered a rose to the god of silence, as a bribe, to keep that god from disclosing the weaknesses of the other gods. In time, the rose became the symbol for silence and secrecy. In the Middle ages, a rose was customarily suspended from the ceiling of a co...