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The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy

On April 25, 2020March 28, 2020 By bookskepticIn Reviews3 Comments

I think I saw the movie years ago, but don't remember much of it, other than it was about a Russian submarine. That is my only explanation as to how I missed that this was a Jack Ryan book. In fact, the first Jack Ryan book to be published. So when Jack Ryan made his …

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VOX – Christina Dalcher

On March 9, 2020March 8, 2020 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

On holiday I again turned to my Kindle. This time a February retreat to a beautiful villa in a wind farm on Tenerife. The weather matched the dystopian mood of the book as a storm carrying Sahara sand descended. There was no sea, whitish emptiness where it was supposed to be. The wind turbines, by …

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