Like
all of Silva’s novels, Prince of Fire weaves intricate storylines
together with seemingly effortless dexterity.
The joy in reading his novels is in more than just the plotline. His characters are three-dimensional and
relatable. They are flawed humans
without being pitiable. Further, for
anyone who loves language, there is joy in observing the craft of his
storytelling. The reader is pulled into
the scene.
Further, and perhaps most
important to me, there is inevitably a moral lesson (or two) in all his
novels: good versus evil, the difficult but necessary choices.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva presents "a first-rate thriller" (Rocky Mountain News) featuring art restorer—and reluctant spy—Gabriel Allon.
After an explosion in Rome destroys the Israeli embassy, Gabriel Allon makes a disturbing discovery—the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets, and lays bare his history. Drawn into the heart of a service he’d once forsaken, Allon finds himself stalking a master terrorist across a bloody landscape generations in the making. But soon, Allon will wonder who is stalking whom.
When the final showdown comes, it won’t be Allon alone who is threatened…
Towles is a great storyteller who weaves the
warp and woof of one man’s life into the historical fabric of the early years
of Soviet Russia.
The story is a multilayered
account that uses a Count as the focal point. The author immerses the reader in the Count’s daily life without being
trite or corny. The story spans decades
and as it does so, the reader is drawn into the daily rhythms of the
characters. The prose pulls the reader
along like a sleigh through soft snow.
The
story develops over decades, and Towles is masterful at allowing the characters
to grow and develop ever so subtly.
The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and…
Bolton is a serious man who has worked for
three American administrations. He
understands strategy and policy. He
knows incompetence when he sees it.
In
Trump’s White House, Bolton struggles to work with Trump’s “basket of
incorrigibles” and incompetents. The
good people leave; too many incompetents stay. Bolton describes an Administration in constant
chaos and a President with the attention span of a toddler. It offers deep insight into how Trump’s policies
were always based on his personal interests rather than national
priorities. It also offers a first-hand
account of how long and meeting-filled the days are for senior officials.
The memoir has no axe to grind. Bolton is not vindictive. He doesn’t skewer opponents and
colleagues. There are no debts to
settle. All of this makes it quite
readable.
As President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves.
The result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the President, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a President for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant…
War fascinates us, but what do we really know about its nature?
Strategia (The Science and Art of Military Command) is the product of Colonel Oliviero’s decades-long intellectual quest to address this fundamental query. His work offers both the serious student and the casual reader a foundation stone upon which to build a deeper understanding of military thought and theory, and thereby a richer appreciation of mankind’s deadliest pursuit.
Strategia introduces many of the major contributors to military thought and theory as well as some of their most profound impacts on the conduct of war, from Sun-Tzu to the modern day, encompassing warfare on land, at sea, and in the air, as well as in the cyber-realm.
