I've read all eight Jack Reacher novels. The Enemy is not the best of the books - that would be Persuader - but if you enjoyed the others you'll certainly like this one also. You know exactly what you want from a Jack Reacher book and you always get it, which is more than you can say for many popular crime series. Unlike the rapidly deteriorating John Sandford or James Patterson books, Lee Child knows that readers like Jack Reacher just the way he started out - an alpha male with a sense of fairness, but no time to indulge in tricky deep character development.
The Enemy is a 'prequel' to the other novels - Reacher is still in the army, a young MP and rising star in the elite 110th… Read more
Masters of Death is the most harrowing book I've ever come across. Many parts I had to repeat several times as I really couldn't believe what I'd just read. Some of the photographs are intensely distressing - beware, there are images you will never delete from your mind once you've seen them. I read the book for the reason that the author said he wrote it - to in a small way bear witness. Because the victims deserve their story to be told. Because although they died silently, the world should not be silent about their deaths.
I was in mild shock when I finally finished reading. It was like emerging from an alternate evil universe. We use the word 'evil' too lightly these days. No horror… Read more
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A Girl's Guide to Totalitarianism, Mar 8 2004
With its non-US edition having a cover shot of a pouting beauty in red lipstick and a red sequinned top, Stasiland is not even pretending to be a serious history book. Nevertheless, there's certainly a place for lightweight, general human-interest books like this, in bringing the underlying civil and historical issues to an audience not otherwise disposed to wade through a deeper politcal analysis.
Stasiland is written in a style like a personal journal - the stories told by ex-GDR citizens to the author are often prefaced with descriptions of where she had coffee before they met, and followed by what she thought afterwards while walking home. But altogether it works more than it doesn't… Read more
