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Jack Ryan wants vengeance for the attack on his wife and daughter and so the CIA has a new employee.

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Terrorists strike in the US.

As Steven & Vicky are running for their lives they enter the TARDIS and find the 5th Doctor instead of their Doctor.

While using the public transport once again due to a flat tire on my ebike and being confronted with the usual delays, Big Finish and Tom Baker offer some entertainment.

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200 pages of 530 pages read

I am reading my 1st edition copy of this 1987 novel which is actually 540 pages long.
It is actually a reread as I first read this novel in the published year and was advised to read by our American neighbours of whom one of them actually was made a general. He was a kind man and his wife a lovely lady.

Watching a football match (Belgium vs Senegal) while reading with the occasional exciting bits. Missed some stuff due to the good story.

Finished Haint which was a pefecrly entertaining creepy little tale. Next up Holler the 2nd installment of this Samuel Brower.

Who is hunting whom?

In a rural surrounding the dead people are starting to add up quickly.

It opens with murder and mayhem after a mining accident. After the mining disaster evil is afoot.

Way to hot to read these last days where it got close to 40 degrees Celsius, today it is a nice 30 degrees Celsius and you can sit in the garden again. The dog is enjoying the weather much more now.

This time Beatrix Rose continues her quest for vengeance, visiting the touristy place of Iraq.

Watching the football match Netherlands - Japan while reading this novel. My wife scares me occasionaly with her cheering Orange. She is the bigger fan.

While I enjoyed the adventures of the various 00's this book has way too much 007 in it compared to the previous two books.

I have read quite a few other novels while reading this 007 novel, its weakness is that the trilogy requires a reread of the two previous installments, whereas the Thunderball, Ohmss and YOLT by Fleming is one tale but in three separate novels. This book does not have any of that.

Beatrix Rose her husband was killed and her daughter was taken away. Now she is back hunting the ones responsible.

Reading the novel while playing the Hans Zimmer soundtrack in the background easily the best soundtrack from the Daniel Craig era. Perhaps due to the influence of OHMSS soundtrack .

Sometimes GR goes weird, you finish another book and write a review and suddenly this book in proces of being read shows up in a list of read novels.
So far I am reading this latest 007 novel and have yet to be impressed.

This episode had my undivided attention due to the following aspects, the audiotale "War of the world" aa done by Orson Welles, who also played "the Shadow" in audioplays, I have quite a few on cd,