State of Fear by Micheal Crichton

Great novel by Micheal Crichton, talks about Global Warming. I found the topics discussed in the novel to be of truth, and the provided references to articles clarifies Crichton's points across.

A speculation of the global warming as discussed in here, writer takes you on a course where you will see the elite planning events that create world catastrophes artificially, such as detonated blasts in Antarctica that creates huge ice bergs, and Cavitation generators in use to create undersea land slide that trigger a Tsunami from Solomon islands.

Group of fully aware people find clues to these events and follow them in an attempt to stop these catastrophes from happening. On the other side, elite plan conferences focusing global warming -used as a state of fear to control humans- are expecting these catastrophes which will help them prove their point across to humans that Global warming is causing these events.

Fascinating script and story line, Crichton expressively provide statistics and build the story to a great phenomenon.

aP Novel rating of
4.7/5.0

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Simple Genius by David Baldacci
Hour Game by David Baldacci

Simple Genius by David Baldacci

ashPresentom Novel Review.

Today's novel we are going to review is Simple Genius by David Baldacci. This book is the 3rd of the Sean King and Michelle Maxwell series. Specialty about today's novel review is that I am going to include the "Novel level of appeal, excitement, and suspense" graph.

Making of the "Novel's level-of-appeal graph"
As I mentioned above this will be an approximate and an average of the level of excitement and appeal as you read the novel. When I design this graph I will recall the novel from my memory and prescribe a number out of 10 for that part of the novel. I will divide the novel into 30 periods for the above process. Since the ranking will take the full judgment of my own senses and feelings, the graph can be used only as an approximate implication of the novel's level of appeal. Without further ado, here is the Novel's level-of-appeal graph.


aP Overall Ranking:4.7/5
Yet another great novel by David Baldacci. Story start from the last book, and the things going on in Michelle Maxwell's live in the first part of the story and how it evolve around level of appeal to the reader, I have described in graphical form above.
The story in this novel focuses on a drug scheme run under the covers orchestrated by CIA in particular. The location of this drug operation take a great importance in history as to a place where World war German soldiers were kept and tortured. In the vicinity is a facility that strive to design the next generation of a supercomputer, thus surrounded by Genius scientists. The investigative work for Sean King starts with the murder of one of the Scientists involved in Baggage town.

This was the scientist who discovered an secret tunnel made by German captives to escape from the prison facility, and what he saw was put into a secret code, which was programed to his daughter, Viggie. Who was also a genius with the capability of finding primes of big numbers in head at the age of eleven. Although she lived in her own world and space out of real life at times, Sean King and Michelle maxwell had to get the secret code or hints for revealing the code from her.

Altogether a great story line and fantastic use of codes and mystery hunting.

aP Novel Review: Hour game by David Baldacci

Yet another great novel by David Baldacci. Story line very well written in a suspense thriller investigative serial killer based novel. As being the second of the Sean King and Michelle Maxwell series, two ex-secret service agents build their relationship together while working at their private investigation firm.

Genius serial killer who leaves a wrist watch on the dead body representing the order of the deaths, by time by an hour. Doing those murders in a mimicking style to represent great serial killers of the past. At one point you will start thinking, is this going to go till 12 O' clock (meaning 12 deaths)? Yet all the killing initiating as a revenge for disregard for his twin brother's medical condition while he was eighteen, in the Battles family. Author has put great thinking in murdering and covering their tracks, for all the murders involved.

Good use of numerous, yet feasible and interesting theories introduced as the serial killer run progress, in solving that, which were Sean King's and Michelle Maxwell's task at hand. As always with all the stories, things have to come to and end somewhere, and so it does in this great thriller. Every plot and every covered tracks solved at the end and justice served.

aP rating for this novel: (based on level of suspense and thriller action)
4.3/5

NOTE:
Thank you very much Mr. David Baldacci blog for mentioning our review of your great book in your blog. (http://davidbaldacci.com/ontheweb/?p=1070)

aP Novel Review: Split Second by David Baldacci

# Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
# Publisher: Vision (September 1, 2004)
# ISBN-10: 0446614459
# ISBN-13: 978-0446614450
# Genre: Thriller, spy stories.

aP Rating: 3.8/5

After reading the Camel Club series by the same author, the Sean King and Michelle Maxwell series starter novel would be ranked little below the great Camel club books which are filled with action and mastermind investigations.

The story picks up in a slower pace and level of action and striving thriller acts. But once you are half way into the story it greatly enhances the activity levels and interest of the reader. Novel has a great plot and a story line. Excellent criminal plan put into action in an attempt to capture the lost lover-criminal act on behalf of trying to win back his love. Story has a mastermind discoveries in an attempt to solve the main investigation. Sadly the great novel, failed to maintain a great ending, yet still a good ending.

Thats is for today's novel review from ashPresentom.

aP Review Divine Justice by Dald Baldacci

Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (November 4, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0446195502
ISBN-13: 978-0446195508
Genre: Thriller, Suspense

ashPresentom Review: This book complete the David Baldacci's action filled Camel Club series-it is the fourth book of the series. It was a common for all camel club novels to be loaded with heavy action and suspense, and Divine Justice, found no exception to that norm.

The main character, Oliver Stone (John Carr) continue to show his masterful killing skills and maturity again in this novel. Novel is well served for its title, well deserved justice was granted for Oliver Stone after 30 years of running for his life, after being opt out of the Tripple-Six division of US Secret Service. In this novel, Stone who created the Camel club, comes for his own rescue to a place in the middle of no-where called, Divine, VA.

If you happened to follow the series in order, the story will make lot of sense and you will enjoy it even more. aP recommend this novel, including the entire series for readers starving for suspense and action while enjoying great write.

The Broker by John Grisham

Amazon review:
Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world's most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him. Now, six years after his incarceration, the director of the CIA convinces a lame duck president to pardon Backman, and the broker becomes a free man--and an open target.

aP rating: 3.8/5
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Pages: 368

aP review: John Grisham as a well recognized writer does a grand job in writing a grand thriller and spy novel; The broker. The story does contain several aspects of a highly entertaining action and suspense novels. Only part where I found the novel to be veering away from this theme was when the writer use pages explaining how the main character Joel Backman learned Italian. In other words, this novel will also provide you a good Italian language learning lessons. I liked his writing style of starting from the peak of the story, starting the story with a mysterious story, and continue the story while in the mid parts go back to the past and try to fill in the gap between past and present. Later parts of the novel again picks up on the suspense and running-for-life action which counter-balance the lack of action during Italian lessons. Overall quite good suspense novel by John Grisham.