Besides the fact that is beautifully written, I absolutely loved the
central character, Count Alexander Rostov. It’s set in Moscow in 1922.
Rostov, a young aristocrat is sentenced to house
arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal. He can’t leave the Metropol Hotel. When I
started, I was worried I might feel as trapped as Count Rostov in the hotel,
but the character’s charm and warmth and wit won me over. The whole world comes
through that hotel and Rostov is kind and smart and funny and heroic.
The turns
in the story are constantly surprising. It’s one of the finest and most
entertaining novels I have ever read.
The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and…
Even though I mostly write comedy, I love dark, gritty crime fiction. S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland is the real
deal. It is a violent, full-throttle Southern noir thriller that kept me enthralled
from the first page to the last.
The plot is full of surprising twists and
turns that all make sense. The central character, Beauregard "Bug"
Montage, is someone you can really root for. He used to be a top wheelman, but
now he's a family man trying to go straight. He has pressure from all sides and
eventually gets sucked back into a life of crime.
The dialogue is fantastic, full of dark humor, and the action is non-stop. It's well worth the ride.
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'BLACKTOP WASTELAND may be the book of the year.' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'Sensationally good' LEE CHILD 'I loved BLACKTOP WASTELAND' STEPHEN KING 'Stunning. Can't remember the last time I read such a powerful crime novel' MARK BILLINGHAM
"Bug" Montage: honest mechanic, loving family man. He's no longer the criminal he was - the sharpest wheelman east of the Mississippi.
But when his respectable life crumbles, a shady associate comes calling with a one-time job promising a huge payout. Inexorably drawn to the driver's seat - and haunted by…
This book was published over fifteen years
ago, but a friend of mine told me I’d love it…and I did. It’s set in a blue-collar Brooklyn
neighborhood in 1947.
It’s the touching
story of two vivid characters. An
eleven-year-old Irish Catholic kid named Michael Devlin and a Rabbi from
Prague. A refugee named Judah Hirsch. The rabbi hires Michael to be a Shabbos
Goy. He shows up on Saturdays to turn on the lights and other things prohibited
by Jewish law on the Sabbath. They forge an unlikely friendship as Michael
learns about Prague and its destruction by the Nazis and the rabbi learns about
Jackie Robinson and baseball.
It’s gritty
and grounded, but full of magical realism. The descriptions are vivid and
Hamill creates a real sense of place. It enthralled me the same way A
Gentleman in Moscow did with characters full of hope and courage and
humanity.
This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . One finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. . . . Disease and Its Control is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen. Annals of Internal Medicine
Hornitos State Mental Hospital houses the worst of the worst. Those convicted of violent criminal behavior are judged not guilty by reason of insanity—mass murderers, serial killers, mad bombers, arsonists, terrorists, and now... James Flynn.
Still convinced he's an international super spy, Flynn finds himself in the most dangerous predicament of his life. He faces off with old enemies, new enemies, and psycho killers who just want to watch the world burn.
He also meets a fierce and beautiful woman who might be even more dangerous and delusional than he is. Together, they walk a tightrope between objective reality and clinical insanity and, with the help of Flynn's reluctant sidekick, Sancho, uncover a mad plot to bring on Armageddon.
