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Review: 📚 The Night Agent toys tantalisingly with tension 📚

To find a Russian mole in the White House, an FBI agent must question everything…and trust no one.

FBI Agent Peter Sutherland waits in the White House Situation Room. He monitors an emergency line for call that might never come. Then the phone rings.
A terrified young woman says two people have been murdered and the killer might still be in the house with her. One of the victims gave her this phone number with urgent instructions: ‘Tell them OSPREY was right. It’s happening.’
The call thrusts Peter into the heart of a conspiracy years in the making, involving a Russian mole at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Anyone in the White House could be the traitor. Anyone could be corrupted.

To save the nation, Peter must take the rules into his own hands, question everything, and trust no one. Continue reading Review: 📚 The Night Agent toys tantalisingly with tension 📚

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Review: 📚 The Philosopher’s Stone is a millennial’s nostalgic kryptonite 📚

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin! Continue reading Review: 📚 The Philosopher’s Stone is a millennial’s nostalgic kryptonite 📚

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Review: 📚 Killing Floor introduces us to one of the best characters in crime fiction 📚

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he’s about to regret.
Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years. The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure:
They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. Continue reading Review: 📚 Killing Floor introduces us to one of the best characters in crime fiction 📚

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Review: 📚 A Killer’s Game is a compelling marriage of thriller and puzzle that fans of Squid Games can’t miss 📚

FBI agent and former military codebreaker Daniela “Dani” Vega witnesses a murder on a Manhattan sidewalk. The victim is chief of staff for a powerful New York senator. The assassin turned informant is Gustavo Toro. His code: hit the target and don’t ask questions. When Dani suspects a complex conspiracy, the only way to take down the mastermind is from the inside, forcing her to partner with Toro. Together they must infiltrate the inner circle at a remote facility.

Except it’s a trap. For all of them.

Locked in a subterranean labyrinth and held captive by an unseen host, Dani, Toro, and others must fight for their lives. Now Dani must stay undercover, unravel a bizarre conspiracy, and survive lethal puzzles. But will Toro be friend or foe? Because in this killer’s game, everything is real: the paranoia, the desperation, and the body count. And only one person can make it out alive. Continue reading Review: 📚 A Killer’s Game is a compelling marriage of thriller and puzzle that fans of Squid Games can’t miss 📚

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Review: 📚 Father of the Future is a flawed but ultimately rewarding philosophical sci-fi adventure 📚

Cassique is a time travelling Fixer in AD 2853. It’s his job to nip back into the past and fix problems which threaten to wipe out the world of the twenty-ninth century. But the longer Cassique spends in those past times, the more he comes to wonder if the docile, VR-obsessed people of his present would actually benefit from a reset. It’s a dangerous thought, because that would mean taking a stand against Father, the world-running super-computer, and Father takes a very dim view of any form of rebellion.

When Cassique teams up with a couple of relatively famous figures from the past, they start trying to formulate a plan to make time travel work in their favour, and return the reins of control to humanity. But they have to be exceedingly careful, because Father might be listening… Continue reading Review: 📚 Father of the Future is a flawed but ultimately rewarding philosophical sci-fi adventure 📚

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