I found this book in an airport. It's the only one the author ever published but it is one of the best spy vs spy novels I've ever read. It follows the lead charicter through exploits in south africa following a plot to finance a terrorist regime by crippling America's nuclear power supply. Very detailed but not to painfully so.

For me, Hunter Thompson's best book. A frantic, wickedly fun romp through 1950's San Juan. Zany charicters and dodgy hijinks... It's like a wild summer vaccation.

King is almost always a great ride through freaky little stories, no doubt, but once in a while he really does press up truely magnificent work. While most of the short stories in this collection are par for the course a handfull will stick with you and one in particular is maybe one of the best I've ever read.

I'm not a huge Michael Connelly fan, but this is a great book. Dark and violent but not gratutiously so. A professional thief eludes a masochistic contract killer. Drags a little here and there but the action makes thr few slow parts are well worth wading through.

Harlan Cobin's Myron Bolitar series is very entertaining, but this one to me always stood out. All the playfull back and forth and zaney antics coupled with some of his charicter's darker exploits are par for the course (ha!) in this series. But the focus on the freindship of the two main charicters sets this one apart.