2008: #36 – The Unlikely Spy (Daniel Silva)

Book #36 was The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva.  The back of the book reads: The time is 1943, London. Professor Alfred Vicary, a mild mannered academic, friend of Churchill, is drafted into M15 to help break the most horrifying intelligence case of World War II–the existence of a Nazi spy ring in England that is ferreting out the secret of the D-Day invasion. Vicary’s

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2007: #11 – Prince of Fire (Daniel Silva)

Book #11 was Prince of Fire, the 5th book in Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon series. The back of the book reads: Few recent thriller writers have excited the kind of critical praise that Daniel Silva has, with his novels featuring art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon. Now Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation:

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2006: #99 – The English Assassin (Daniel Silva); #100 – Final Target (Iris Johansen); #101 – Vital Signs (Robin Cook); #102 – A Death in Vienna (Daniel Silva); #103 – Velocity (Dean Koontz); #104 – A Stroke of Midnight (Laurell K. Hamilton); #105 – Amber Beach (Elizabeth Lowell); #106 – A Place Called Wiregrass (Michael Morris)

The good news is, I’ve passed the 100 book mark! Bad news is, this is going to be a doozy of an entry because I’ve been slacking. Book #99 was The English Assassin, the 2nd book in Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon series. The back of the book reads: Gabriel Allon had done much in his lifetime. A sometime Israeli spy by trade, an art restorer

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2006: #96 – When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Lawrence Block); #97 – The Kill Artist (Daniel Silva); #98 – A Dangerous Fortune (Ken Follett)

Book #96 was When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, the first book in Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder series. The back of the book reads: In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away — and doing “favors” for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he’ll need

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