Thriller

I found 'Salt of their Blood' and absolutely fascinating read, set in the 60s and 70s in and around Oxfordshire. I liked the way that the story bounced back and forth between the two decades, and in a way it reminded me of a very stylistic type of English pulp fiction. It is a dark story of love found, lost and found again,a bit like a Greek tragedy, but also it is about crime and who did the deed. There are clues but I still found it a surprise by the end of the book as to who did actually do the murder.

This is an exciting episode in the Jason Bourne series. A tense and exciting thriller which takes the reader across continents as the plot is unfolded.

As the story opens, there's a deadly secret being passed along to help foil a dangerous terrorist plan. The U.S. intelligence community is in great turmoil, and there are lots of people who want to grab the reins of power. Jason Bourne has resumed his David Webb persona and is teaching again. Events quickly conspire to intertwine those plot threads into a huge conflict that imperils even Jason Bourne.

The story is set in 1889 as the great powers of Europe are scrambling for territory in Africa. The last territory is the kingdom of Matabele and Mashonaland, ruled by the benevolent tyrant King Lobengula and policed by his 20,000 warriors, Cecil John Rhodes wants the land at any price in order t0 extend the British Empire.

Although this book is about the murder of the wife of a popular Breakfast Host, it is realy about love. Robert
Rotenberg spins his story out like a spiders web with so many chracters and subplots that keep the reader
guessing until the last page. My favourite chracter is Judge Summers who is a fiesty old man who terrifies everyone and runs his court room like a ship, but I am sure that there are others like him.

This is one of the best thrillers that I have read for a very long time with a ingenious plot. Absolutly Brillant.

The blurb of this book doesn't do it justice. from what i read i was expecting a spy-type thriller, but what i got was a very cleverly thought out, not-quite-what-you-expect conspiracy story with a healthy dose of fiction mixed in. ..read more

A thriller set around the retrieval and use of an ancient artifact and with the main action taking place in and around Egypt.

Id say it's a good holiday read - fast paced, reasonable plot given acceptance of the nature of the artifact, interesting characters, very good evocative descriptions. It'll keep you absorbed for the time it takes to read but won't clog up your memory !

This audio version of Linwood Barclay's book 'Fear the Worst' is very intense and I found myself being glued to the cd player, even when a friend came round! I had to shove her out in the garden with one of my daughters so I could get to the end of disc 3! How mad is that!

Jeff Harding is brilliant at conveying the terror that character Tim Blake goes through when his daughter Sydney (Syd) goes missing and of course in the process you can't not play the cds back to back until you get to the end.

On reflection, I found this book very strange. While I enjoyed reading it, I came to the end feeling that it lacked completion.

The individual stories that took place within the novel were interesting and engaging, but over all the book lacked the compellingness of Koontz's other works.

A good book, but I think log-term Koontz fans will be slightly disappointed.

Another gripping read from Koontz. Koontz's characters are completely relatable yet a little bit kooky, and come out with things that make you smile and laugh out loud. The storyline, if featured anywhere but a Koontz book, would be a little hard to believe, but fits in perfectly with his trademark mix of thrill and humour that make you not want to put the book down.

A good one for all Koontz fans.

Well, a vampire zombie fest is not my normal reading but this is very good. It is a combination of Will Smith's I am Legend and Sean of the Dead (may be I'm a bit cynical but I can see the funny side!), together with some good old blood sucking thrown in to the mix!