Books that I have read in 2005
Books - 12; Pages - 4464
1 Blackout by John J. Nance
Finish Date: Sunday, December 18, 2005
Pages: 435
Genre: Military/Aviation/Espionage Thriller
First Sentence: Karen Briant suppressed a smile as she watched Jim Olsen struggle.
Last Sentence: She felt the tears welling up and struggled to control them, but it was no use.
Summary: (From The Publisher): As the novel begins, a Boeing 747 rises into a Hong Kong sunset. Within minutes, a flash splits the darkening sky. The pilot suddenly blinded and doubled over in pain fumbles in the dark in a frantic effort to gain control." "Kal Bronsky, an FBI agent and terrorism specialist introduced in The Last Hostage, is assigned the hunt for a Challenger-class business jet seen nearby just before the incident. The case quickly poses more questions than she can count...
Favorite Quotes: You screw up, you admit it and take the consequences.
Pages: 435
Genre: Military/Aviation/Espionage Thriller
First Sentence: Karen Briant suppressed a smile as she watched Jim Olsen struggle.
Last Sentence: She felt the tears welling up and struggled to control them, but it was no use.
Summary: (From The Publisher): As the novel begins, a Boeing 747 rises into a Hong Kong sunset. Within minutes, a flash splits the darkening sky. The pilot suddenly blinded and doubled over in pain fumbles in the dark in a frantic effort to gain control." "Kal Bronsky, an FBI agent and terrorism specialist introduced in The Last Hostage, is assigned the hunt for a Challenger-class business jet seen nearby just before the incident. The case quickly poses more questions than she can count...
Favorite Quotes: You screw up, you admit it and take the consequences.
2 Deep As The Marrow by F. Paul Wilson
Finish Date: Friday, November 25, 2005
Pages: 352
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: "...and then you know what Jimmy did?"
Last Sentence: Just hearing her voice was enough.
Summary: (From the Publisher): Crackpots and left-wingers have talked about it for years, but no one with any real authority has ever considered it. It would be political suicide. But President Thomas Winston has taken the boldest and most bizarre step in the War on Drugs that the United States has ever seen. Vowing to make narcotics legal and to tax and regulate them to the brink of extinction, he intends to take the billions of dollars generated from their sale out of the hands of the drug cartels and move the money into the government's coffers. The conservatives and the Bible Belt are outraged...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 352
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: "...and then you know what Jimmy did?"
Last Sentence: Just hearing her voice was enough.
Summary: (From the Publisher): Crackpots and left-wingers have talked about it for years, but no one with any real authority has ever considered it. It would be political suicide. But President Thomas Winston has taken the boldest and most bizarre step in the War on Drugs that the United States has ever seen. Vowing to make narcotics legal and to tax and regulate them to the brink of extinction, he intends to take the billions of dollars generated from their sale out of the hands of the drug cartels and move the money into the government's coffers. The conservatives and the Bible Belt are outraged...
Favorite Quotes: NA
3 The Fifth Harmonic by F. Paul Wilson
Finish Date: Saturday, November 19, 2005
Pages: 213
Genre: Fantasy Fiction
First Sentence: Not much doing in this quaint little Westchester town on a hot Thursday afternoon, so Will felt free to crawl his Land Rover past the brick-and clapboard-fronted shops on the tree-lined main drag as he scanned their windows: a cafe, an optician, Hallmark cards, one-hour photo...
Last Sentence: And all the time in the world to do it.
Summary: (FROM THE PUBLISHER) ... The Fifth Harmonic is the story of Will Burleigh, a hard-nosed M.D. When he is diagnosed with throat cancer he faces a gut-wrenching decision: undergo massive radiation and radical surgery that will leave him permanently disfigured or trust his life to the mysterious and beautiful Maya, a woman who claims she can heal him-but at what cost? A fast-paced thriller.
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 213
Genre: Fantasy Fiction
First Sentence: Not much doing in this quaint little Westchester town on a hot Thursday afternoon, so Will felt free to crawl his Land Rover past the brick-and clapboard-fronted shops on the tree-lined main drag as he scanned their windows: a cafe, an optician, Hallmark cards, one-hour photo...
Last Sentence: And all the time in the world to do it.
Summary: (FROM THE PUBLISHER) ... The Fifth Harmonic is the story of Will Burleigh, a hard-nosed M.D. When he is diagnosed with throat cancer he faces a gut-wrenching decision: undergo massive radiation and radical surgery that will leave him permanently disfigured or trust his life to the mysterious and beautiful Maya, a woman who claims she can heal him-but at what cost? A fast-paced thriller.
Favorite Quotes: NA
4 Nightkill by F. Paul Wilson and Steve Lyon
Finish Date: Friday, November 11, 2005
Pages: 288
Genre: Medical Thriller
First Sentence: Jake heard from Fredo Papillardi the usual way: a typically verbose note to Jake’s Atlantic City post office box: “Call Fredo”.
Last Sentence: Because walking was something he never again would take for granted.
Summary: (From the publisher): Nightkill is a taut medical thriller of crooked politicians, an assassin with a tarnished heart of gold, and the mob that is out to get him...and a single-minded medical researcher who would use them all for his own profit...
Favorite Quotes: “It could have been a skunk” (I know, it’s hard to understand the underlying message of this quote without the context. Believe me, it will make sense if you read the book. It’s actually kind of humorous. ) <br /> “… a man isn’t a body. That’s just wrappings. A man is what you find inside. And you are the man I want.”
Pages: 288
Genre: Medical Thriller
First Sentence: Jake heard from Fredo Papillardi the usual way: a typically verbose note to Jake’s Atlantic City post office box: “Call Fredo”.
Last Sentence: Because walking was something he never again would take for granted.
Summary: (From the publisher): Nightkill is a taut medical thriller of crooked politicians, an assassin with a tarnished heart of gold, and the mob that is out to get him...and a single-minded medical researcher who would use them all for his own profit...
Favorite Quotes: “It could have been a skunk” (I know, it’s hard to understand the underlying message of this quote without the context. Believe me, it will make sense if you read the book. It’s actually kind of humorous. ) <br /> “… a man isn’t a body. That’s just wrappings. A man is what you find inside. And you are the man I want.”
5 Violets Are Blue by James Patterson
Finish Date: Saturday, November 5, 2005
Pages: 416
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 416
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
6 Soft and Others: 16 Stories of Wonder and Dread by F. Paul Wilson
Finish Date: Monday, October 31, 2005
Pages: 306
Genre: Short Stories
First Sentence: Dr. Edward Parker reached across his desk and flipped the power switch on his tape recorder to the "on" position.
Last Sentence: His legs slid from under him and despite the most desperate flailings and contortions, there was nothing to grasp on the way down but empty air.
Summary: "Soft and Others" is a guided tour to that world, personally conducted by the author. From the pitfalls of Hollywood to the deathtraps of a city gone mad, from a most unusual Hallowean to an unexpected rock 'n' roll reunion, F. Paul Wilson leads you step by step into terror.
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 306
Genre: Short Stories
First Sentence: Dr. Edward Parker reached across his desk and flipped the power switch on his tape recorder to the "on" position.
Last Sentence: His legs slid from under him and despite the most desperate flailings and contortions, there was nothing to grasp on the way down but empty air.
Summary: "Soft and Others" is a guided tour to that world, personally conducted by the author. From the pitfalls of Hollywood to the deathtraps of a city gone mad, from a most unusual Hallowean to an unexpected rock 'n' roll reunion, F. Paul Wilson leads you step by step into terror.
Favorite Quotes: NA
7 2nd Chance by James Patterson
Finish Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Pages: 400
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 400
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
8 London Bridges by James Patterson
Finish Date: Sunday, October 23, 2005
Pages: 326
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Colonel Geoffrey Shafer loved his new life in Salvador, Brazil's third-largest city and some would say its most intriguing.
Last Sentence: I kept telling myself that until I finally believed it.
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 326
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Colonel Geoffrey Shafer loved his new life in Salvador, Brazil's third-largest city and some would say its most intriguing.
Last Sentence: I kept telling myself that until I finally believed it.
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
9 Legacies by F. Paul Wilson
Finish Date: Thursday, October 20, 2005
Pages: 448
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: "It's Okay!" Alicia shouted as the cab jerked to the left to swing around a NYNEX truck plodding up Madison Avenue.
Last Sentence: Only he will understand
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Urban mercenary Repairman Jack is back after a long hiatus, but Wilson's work-for-hire outlaw has clearly lost his edge since his last novel-length adventure, The Tomb (1984). Although still a lean and mean equalizer who makes his living "fixing" personal injustices, he has developed a soft spot for the kind of sympathetic victim that no conscientious defender could refuse. This new escapade pairs him with Alicia Clayton, head of a pediatric AIDS clinic in Manhattan, who has inherited a valuable Murray Hill townhouse from her estranged father. Alicia would love to destroy the building and with it memories of childhood sexual abuse she suffered there, but she is prevented by her slimy half-brother, Thomas, who offers to buy the house for an outrageous sum of money and whom she suspects is responsible for the violent deaths of everyone she hires to dispose of it...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 448
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: "It's Okay!" Alicia shouted as the cab jerked to the left to swing around a NYNEX truck plodding up Madison Avenue.
Last Sentence: Only he will understand
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Urban mercenary Repairman Jack is back after a long hiatus, but Wilson's work-for-hire outlaw has clearly lost his edge since his last novel-length adventure, The Tomb (1984). Although still a lean and mean equalizer who makes his living "fixing" personal injustices, he has developed a soft spot for the kind of sympathetic victim that no conscientious defender could refuse. This new escapade pairs him with Alicia Clayton, head of a pediatric AIDS clinic in Manhattan, who has inherited a valuable Murray Hill townhouse from her estranged father. Alicia would love to destroy the building and with it memories of childhood sexual abuse she suffered there, but she is prevented by her slimy half-brother, Thomas, who offers to buy the house for an outrageous sum of money and whom she suspects is responsible for the violent deaths of everyone she hires to dispose of it...
Favorite Quotes: NA
10 The Haunter Air by F. Paul Wilson
Finish Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Pages: 532
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: The bride wore white.
Last Sentence: The only real deal in town.
Summary: In the borough of Queens, just accross the river from Manhattan, two clever practitioners of spiritualist hocus-pocus use high-tech tricks to dupe their marks. Perhaps they're too good: they've lured too many clients from other mediums and are now under attack. Unable to go to the police for fear of exposing their own scams, they hire Repairman Jack to fix their problem...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 532
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: The bride wore white.
Last Sentence: The only real deal in town.
Summary: In the borough of Queens, just accross the river from Manhattan, two clever practitioners of spiritualist hocus-pocus use high-tech tricks to dupe their marks. Perhaps they're too good: they've lured too many clients from other mediums and are now under attack. Unable to go to the police for fear of exposing their own scams, they hire Repairman Jack to fix their problem...
Favorite Quotes: NA
11 The Taking by Dean Koontz
Finish Date: Saturday, August 20, 2005
Pages: 448
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In 1975, the now defunct Laser Books issued Invasion by Aaron Wolfe, aka Koontz (who later expanded that novel into Winter Moon, 1994), a breakneck tale of alien invasion centered on an isolated farm. Koontz's new novel also concerns alien invasion, and a comparison of the two books offers insight into the evolution of this megaselling author's work. Invasion was mostly speed and suspense—a brilliant if superficial exercise in terror...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 448
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In 1975, the now defunct Laser Books issued Invasion by Aaron Wolfe, aka Koontz (who later expanded that novel into Winter Moon, 1994), a breakneck tale of alien invasion centered on an isolated farm. Koontz's new novel also concerns alien invasion, and a comparison of the two books offers insight into the evolution of this megaselling author's work. Invasion was mostly speed and suspense—a brilliant if superficial exercise in terror...
Favorite Quotes: NA
12 Blowing my cover: My life as a CIA spy by Lindsay Moran
Finish Date: Friday, July 8, 2005
Pages: 300
Genre: Biography/Memoir
First Sentence: I am in a medical laboratory at the Central Intelligence Agency, waiting to pee in a cup.
Last Sentence: We were going on our honeymoon.
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 300
Genre: Biography/Memoir
First Sentence: I am in a medical laboratory at the Central Intelligence Agency, waiting to pee in a cup.
Last Sentence: We were going on our honeymoon.
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA