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Pretty good so far. I'm hoping for a twist though because it seems predictable as ofc halfway through...

No good guys in this, unless you count the "clients", who hardly matter to anyone. Clay's transition from a decent, hardworking, underpaid public defender to a greedy schmuck is a bit too quick. Otherwise, this is an engrossing, entertaining read.

Very engrossing, fast-paced, entertaining, and even amusing. I know Clay is going to get his comeuppance, which adds to the drama.

This is very different: sort of a starred romance mixed with film noir, with the 1940s small town radio industry as a backdrop.

I'm reading this at the same time as Mailer's Deer Park (set in the early postwar era)--which although very different overall, has similarities in that an outsider just shows up in an isolated community and is immediately accepted. Jack isn't really an outsider, as he discovers...

Very good account of a complex topic. Women were essential to our war effort in WWII; but other than acknowledging that there were WAACS and WAVES, not a whole lot is known about these folks, or what they actually did.

The author writes very seamlessly and with an authoritive perspective. Looking forward to reading the rest of it.

I kind of cashed-in early on this. Not that it isn't interesting, but I found I don't really like any of the characters, or at least their limitations. I didn't want to read about the "regicides" getting caught.

It's a dreary situation on both sides. I did appreciate the look at very early colonial America, when societies were paradoxically both in flux and extremely rigidly organized.

This starts out well--looks like it's worth giving a fair shake. I thought I'd read some Cody Banks crime novels before--but now I'm not so sure. Anyway, I couldn't help peeking at a review or two, so I can see that the tractor theft isn't just an introductory warm-up case...I already like the farmer characters--both the traditional guy and the newbie city-slicker guy.
[To be continued...]

Entertaining. I usually stay away from historical fiction because that genre tends to have a sort of time-machine quality: changing too many things can upset everything else, and can ruin the historical aspect.

But I think this is done well. The author explains why he's invented the agent charge with pursuing the elusive pair of Charles I's assassins, and sets him to work among the historical characters...

Very disappointed. I should've read the introduction before buying; strictly speaking this is historical fiction, not history. The author's disclaimer that much of the discussion and documentation of the events surrounding the Treaty of Versailles was done in secret, and therefore he decided to recreate the dialog to fit the events seems to have been a poor choice.

What we get is drier than what he purports to

Massie doesn't disappoint; after tooling through A.J.P. Taylor's Struggle For Mastery In Europe, I needed a break from his roller-coaster phrases and jagged quips. I wanted some background on Kaiser Wilhelm's ascendancy as German Emperor, particularly how he puttered around, improved micromanaged and essentially mucked up Germany's affairs after dismissing Bismarck.

I usually don't like to start a review before I finish the book, but I'll make an exception because this is an exceptional book.

I've read a couple of Larsen's period true crime books, so I figured this would be a good read. It's so well-written, fascinating, and enlightening, that i feel the experience is similar to a university seminar.

He manages to encapsulate WWI by telling the story of one ship.....