"A historic murder baffles Mikael Blomkvist, but the dragon-tattooed girl puzzles him more. The riddle of the murder they solve, but Lisbeth remains an enigma."
"The war raised Stuart from obscurity to officer and decorated hero, but peacetime treats him less generously. Imprisoned in the Pacific, he enters into a dangerous union with a precocious schoolgirl."
"Half a century since Fleming gave us James Bond, but still we can't get enough of the Cold War Warrior who could both defeat The Villain and grab the sexiest girl present. Benson tries his hand."
"And in 2035, half a century and more since Stuart deadly Pacific struggle, the desire to excel burns in his descendant, young Zorn, who is urged towards life-risking folly in the pursuit of adulthood"
"Fourty years after the original Bond's last mission, his appreciated but unwooed secretary's mysterious death is investigated. But so much for the glamour of the secret assasin...."
"Doctors are Warriors; highly skilled ones, fighting death. But surgeon Stone is a man too, and Sister Mary Joseph Praise, despite being a nun, is still a woman, a complication ending his career."
"Women are tougher than men; I doubt that not. But weaker, and so all to often the victims of violence. Sarah, from mild Surrey, turns hero to rescue Nigerean teenager Little Bee from rape and murder."
"Strange that in a world of real terror we need still the invented type. Patterson's hero Alex Cross is kept busier than usual when two serial killers join forces, yet finds time for a little romance."
"Possibly the word "warrior" makes your mind turn immediately to those masters of the sword, the samurai. Their women had to be as tough as themselves in Clavel's Japanese saga."
