Shadow Trade by Alan Furst Nowadays Alan Furst is known for his well-crafted and beautifully executed historical espionage tales, primarily set around the Second World...
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Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher This week I am combining my Throwback Thursday and Forecast Friday entries into one. Garry Disher’s Bitter Wash Road is one of my all...
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Retrieval by Colin Dunne (Hamlyn, 1985) Colin Dunne wrote four novels in the 1980s which sat comfortably in that literary space between spy novel and tough guy...
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Death Deal by Garry Disher (Allen & Unwin, 1993) Garry Disher burst on the Australian crime fiction scene in 1991 with the first novel about the amoral,...
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Balefire by Kenneth Goddard When I reviewed Balefire by Kenneth Goddard back in late 1983 I said that it was a “gripping thriller, guaranteed to keep you reading...
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The KGB Candidate by Owen Sela A Russian President in the White House!! In recent years there has been an influx of novels about American Presidents being influenced by...
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