Summer is heating up and so are the titles being released! Here are some to look forward to, starting in July.
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Sarah Addison Other Birds (August)
Backman, Fredrik The Winners (September)
Baldacci, David The 6:20 Man
Balogh, Mary Remember Love
Brooks, Geraldine Horse (June)
Carlisle, Kate The Paper Caper
Castillo, Linda The Hidden One (Kate Burkholder)
Chambers, Becky A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk and Robot)
Chiaverini, Jennifer Switchboard Soldiers
Child, Lincoln Chrysalis: A Thriller
Coble, Colleen Edge of Dusk
Coulter, Catherine Reckoning: An FBI Thriller (August)
Francis, Felix Iced
Freeman, Brian Robert Ludlum’s the Bourne Sacrifice
Garwood, Julie Grace Under Fire
Gerritsen,Tess Listen to Me
Greaney, Mark Armored
Hillier, Jennifer Things We Do in the Dark
Koontz, Dean The Big Dark Sky
Macomber, Debbie The Best Is Yet to Come
Malliet, G.M. Augusta Hawke
McCall Smith, Alexander Sweet Remnants of Summer (Isabel Dalhousie)
Miranda, Megan The Last to Vanish
Patterson, James Shattered (Michael Bennett)
Peterson, Traci Beyond the Desert Sands
Reichs, Kathy Cold, Cold Bones
Robb, J.D. Desperation in Death (August)
Rosenfelt, David Holy Chow
Silva, Daniel Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Thor, Brad Rising Tiger
Tremblay, Paul The Pallbearers Club
Ware, Ruth The It Girl
There are so many epic espionage films and TV shows on now or in the pipeline. Doing the rounds is The Courier about Greville Wynne played by Benedict Cumberbatch who looks astonishingly just like Wynne did in real life. Really worth watching ... twice!
ReplyDeleteComing soon is Joe and Anthony Russo's The Gray Man starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans based upon Mark Greaney's debut novel: it sounds like an epic movie and if you love the Gray Man you had best read this article. Already on TV or in cinemas are The Ipcress File with newcomer Joe Cole, Mick Herron’s Slow Horses from the Slough House stables, Colin Firth in Operation Mincemeat, Olen Steinhauer’s All the Old Knives and let’s not forget Kaley Cuoco in the Flight Attendant.
Indeed, ignoring the fact based Operation Mincemeat and The Courier, there’s almost too much fictional espionage on the menu to cope with so why not try reading instead. If you liked Deighton, Herron or Wynne, we suggest a noir fact based espionage masterpiece could do the trick. Two compelling thrillers spring to mind. They are both down to earth curious real life Cold War novels you’ll never put down.
Try Bill Fairclough’s Beyond Enkription in The Burlington Files series and Ben Macintyre’s The Spy and the Traitor about KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky.
Talking of Col Oleg, he knew MI6’s Col Mac (aka Col Alan Pemberton in real life) who was Edward Burlington’s handler in The Burlington Files. Bill Fairclough (aka Edward Burlington) came across John le Carré (aka David Cornwell) long after the latter’s MI6 career ended thanks to Kim Philby. The novelist Graham Greene used to work in MI6 reporting to Philby and Bill Fairclough actually stayed in Hôtel Oloffson during a covert op in Haiti which was at the heart of Graham Greene’s spy novel The Comedians.