Author: sroot
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Driving Blind Stories (Ray Bradbury)
When I was growing up I was given a book of short stories written by Ray Bradbury (A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories). I remember loving it so much I read it several times over the next few years. The title Story (A sound of thunder) explored time travel and the effects a time…
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The Tristan Betrayal (Robert Ludlum)
Just over 500 pages long, this book finishes with an exquisite twist. A story of how an aging diplomat averts world war 3, we read of his past during World War 2 and are lead slowly towards the answer. In so many ways a typical spy novel but having read the first few chapters I…
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Redcoat (Bernard Cornwell)
What do you get if you cross a classic Bernard Cornwell Sharpe book, the American fight for independence and a love story? Redcoat! A pleasant book which I found to be as much a love story as a book of action. Our hero is British soldier serving in the ranks and he falls in love…