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Kate’s 2¢: “The Killer Collective” by Barry Eisler
“The Killer Collective” by Barry Eisler
I enjoyed the story, but I was very glad I couldn’t see the ‘child hurt pornography” she showed the team on her laptop. Insidious.
A few take-aways from the story:
–In some ways, what he’d just learned defied reason. How could something so awful, also contain something so impossibly good?
–The problem was the government; it had already been penetrated.
–Half Japanese and half American had always meant neither.
–We rarely see what we prefer to over-look
–If you live long enough, you gain perspective and, maybe, some self-cntrol.
–security through obscurity
–visualization, verbalization, and mental shadow boxing
–If you want something you’ve never had before, you have to do something you’ve never done before.
–The child is left physically crippled; dominate the body and destroy the soul.
–He’d spread his dreams under her feet…she would find a way to tread softly
It is interesting to read how the various personalities of the characters melded to get the job done, but never lost their own identity.
barryeisler.com
Barry Mark Eisler (born 1964) is a best-selling American novelist. He is the author of two thriller series, the first featuring anti-hero John Rain, a half-Japanese, half-American former soldier turned freelance assassin, and a second featuring black ops soldier Ben Treven. Eisler also writes about politics and language on his blog Heart of the Matter, and at the blogs CHUD, Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, MichaelMoore.com, The Smirking Chimp, and Truthout.
Eisler was born in New Jersey,[1] his father was a wholesale office supplier, and his mother an environmental activist. Eisler graduated from Cornell Law School in 1989.[2][3]
Early career[edit]
After completing law school, Eisler joined the CIA, where he trained for three years afterward and held a covert position with the Directorate of Operations.[3] In 1992, he resigned and joined the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges.[2] In 1994, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to work for the firm’s technology licensing division, then left to work in Japan for Matsushita.[1][2]
In 1999, he returned to the Bay Area to join a startup.[2]
In 2003, he started writing full-time, when he sold the rights to his debut novel, Rain Fall, the first of his series featuring John Rain.[2]
Self-publishing[edit]
Eisler made news in March 2011 when he walked away from a reported half million dollar advance from St. Martin’s Press in order to go the self-publishing route pioneered by his colleague Joe Konrath and others.[4][5] He then took a six-figure deal to publish the seventh John Rain novel, The Detachment (2011), under Amazon Publishing’s Thomas & Mercer mystery imprint.[6]
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The killer collective DB108344
Eisler, Barry. Reading time: 13 hours, 35 minutes.
Read by Jared Zak.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Political Fiction
“When a joint FBI-Seattle Police investigation of an international child pornography ring gets too close to certain powerful people, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that barely goes awry–a hit that had been offered to John Rain, a retired specialist in “natural causes.” Suspecting the FBI itself was behind the attack, Livia reaches out to former Marine sniper Dox. Together, they assemble an ad hoc group to identify and neutralize the threat. There’s Rain. Rain’s estranged lover, Mossad agent and honeytrap specialist Delilah. And black ops soldiers Ben Treven and Daniel Larison, along with their former commander, SpecOps legend Colonel Scot “Hort” Horton. Moving from Japan to Seattle to DC to Paris, the group fights a series of interlocking conspiracies, each edging closer and closer to the highest levels of the US government. With uncertain loyalties, conflicting agendas, and smoldering romantic entanglements, these operators will have a hard time forming a
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Kate’s 2¢: “Every Vow You Break” byPeter Swanson
“Every Vow You Break” byPeter Swanson
When the nepharious purpose of this island paradise was revealed, it reminded me of “Forty Acres” by Dwayne Alexander Smith. Let’s hope the reality doesn’t follow these two fictional books.
I enjoyed the pace and narrative arc of this story and, of course, cheered when our heroine made it to safety.
Peter Swanson (born May 26, 1968) is an American author, best known for his psychological suspense novels The Kind Worth Killing and Her Every Fear.[1]
His novel Every Vow You Break, was released in March 2021, and his most recent one, Nine Lives, was released in March 2022.[2]
Swanson wrote fiction for ten years before finding an agent who read a short story of his online, leading to the eventual publication of his debut novel The Girl With a Clock for a Heart.[3] He has also written short stories and poetry.[4]
Swanson lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. He is married and has a cat.[5]
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Every vow you break: a novel DB108418
Swanson, Peter. Reading time: 7 hours, 42 minutes.
Read by Karissa Vacker.
Suspense Fiction
Psychological Fiction
“A bride’s dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man with whom she’s had a regrettable one-night stand shows up in this electrifying psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Eight Perfect Murders. Abigail Baskin never thought she’d fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. He’s a good guy, stable, level-headed, kind–a refreshing twist from her previous relationships. But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. She puts the incident–and the sexy guy who wouldn’t give her his real name–out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life. Then the mysterious stranger suddenly appears–and Abigail’s future life and happiness are turned upside down. He insists that their passionate night was the beginning of something much, much more. Something special. Something real–and he’s tracked her down to prove it. Does she tell Bruce and ruin their idyllic honeymoon–and possib
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By Kate Chamberlin
Horrific storm surges
Urgent evacuations
Rations stock-piled
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By Kate Chamberlin
Horrific storm surges
Urgent evacuations
Rations stock-piled
Radios with fresh batteries
Independent living shelter in place
Canine reliefs wet and windy
Anxious families and friends
Night winds howl
Enormous mess in Ian’s wake.
September 27-29, 2022
Independent living shelter in place
Canine reliefs wet and windy
Anxious families and friends
Night winds howl
Enormous mess in Ian’s wake.
September 27-29, 2022