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Die Buying
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Laura Disilverio
Fred Camfield
, October 31, 2011
Entertaining light reading by the same author who brought us PI Charlie Swift. This is the entry into a separate series dealing with a mall cop, i.e., someone working security in a large shopping mall. That may sound dull, but a lot happens in a mall besides shoplifting. In this case we have a nude dead body show up posed in a shop window. a nasty surprise for the early morning mall walkers. Also, someone has released the merchandise from a specialty shop dealing with snakes, turtles, etc., another unwelcome surprise for customers in the mall. Then, of course, there are people vandalizing vehicles in the parking lot, not to mention problems with management. A couple more dead bodies help liven things up, a little more action than one would expect for someone working in a mall security office.
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Tribe
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James Bruno
Fred Camfield
, October 31, 2011
Harry Brennan is an agent on the ground, assigned to carry out a mission in Afghanistan. Bureaucrats in Washington try to scrub the mission, for reasons unknown to Harry, and move towards a different objective. Harry charges forward against orders to complete the mission, is successful, but is betrayed, wounded, and called back to headquarters in Washington, DC. Harry finds himself drawn into a game involving politicians, bureaucrats, money and power. A great many people have self interests, and there are questions of loyalty and whom you can trust. You can be betrayed when it suits someone's self interest. Harry becomes a man who knows too much, and there are people who want him out of the way, but Harry has been an agent for a long time and has a set of survival skills. This beomes a question of loyalties, particularly when members of people's families are involved. Harry discovers some unusual allies who have interests that mesh with his own. Nothing works out like anyone expects, and when things hit the fan, prople protect themselves. There are always heroes and sacrifical goats, and people left tainted by events. The author has personal experience being on the ground with the State Department, and the novel is a well written action-adventure. It was redacted by State, the CIA, the FBI, whomever before publication, but remains a good novel. The author sent me a copy for review, but there was no obligation attached (he knows that I don't always give five star ratings, but was confident about his writing). This is an author to put on your watch list. He has written other novels, and indicated that his next novel will deal with Cuba.
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Bloodmoney
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David Ignatius
Fred Camfield
, June 25, 2011
One could think that the author has been looking over someone's shoulder. If you want a picture, fictional of course, about the present state of affairs between the intelligence services of Pakistan and the United States, this is the novel to read. It deals with the spiderweb of intelligence and covert operations. There is the major alliance at the national level, but then there are all those side alliances. There is tribal loyalty, terrorist groups, and the attitude of taking care of yourself first. There is a rogue agency outside the CIA structure engaged in backdoor operations, and intelligence agents who aren't really sure exactly whom they are working for. And then there is all that money, a lot of which seems to get lost. You get drawn into the plot, and the book is hard to put down.
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Buried Secrets
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Joseph Finder
Fred Camfield
, June 12, 2011
Spoiled rich kids are running wild. A teenage girl, out where she shouldn't be. gets herself in trouble and doesn't come home. Her father calls Nick Heller, a private intelligence consultant whom he has known since Nick was a child, asking for assistance. The father, for reasons he is not revealing, does not want to call the police. People are looking out for their own interests, and Nick doesn't know whom he can trust. He has people available with special skills whom he can call on for assistance, and an international list of contacts for buying or trading information. He needs to work fast to find the girl while she is still alive. Things are complicated because "middlemen" involved in the girl's disappearance are being killed. This becomes a high tech game, searching data bases, tracking down motives, establishing identities, and finding the girl's location. You will learn a lot about technical forensics and tracking techniques. There are some surprises along the way. Readers are also referred to Reece Hirsch's debut novel, "The Insider," for a different slant on Russian gangsters.
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Follow the Money
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Ross Cavins
Fred Camfield
, August 01, 2010
The funniest book that I have read this year. It is written about a collection of rednecks, many a couple cards short of a full deck. In the format of a collection of 10 short stories, the stories have a continuous plot as characters from one lead into characters from the next, and then there is the bag of money that moves forward through the stories. What would you do if $3 million fell into your lap? The stories move forward from kidnappers to con artists, to car thieves and a dishonest cop, to a bookie and a woman willing to do...well...for enough money, to a man with an unusual problem and a couple older women out for a good time, to a motel cleaning woman and a couple rednecks who steal more than they anticipated, and finally to an older woman who wants to do the Lord's work. There are a few preachers involved, along with exotic dancers and other spear carriers. The language is sometimes earthy leaning towards x-rated. Everyone has secret desires for things that money can buy. There is ribald humor along the way and, if you don't mind the language, the book is hard to put down.
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On Protracted War
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Tse Tung Mao
Fred Camfield
, September 14, 2009
This is a short book that everyone should read, but that most people ignore. It explains why the US became bogged down in Vietnam, and probably why the US won the American Revolution. The premise is simple. If you drag a war out long enough, the enemy will get tired and go home. All the elements are there, including political dissent in your enemy's home country.
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