Cory D. Slipman

Murder & kidnapping whodunit, July 11 2004

Plastic surgeon Dr. Marc Seidman awakens in an intensive care unit realizing that he had been shot both in the chest and head in Harlen Coben's "No Second Chance". As his memory returns, he is informed by local detective Bob Regan and FBI agent Lloyd Tickner that his wife Monica had been killed in the attack and his 6 month old daughter Tara had been abducted. Seidman is questioned by the suspicious authorities while in his hospital bed but is shielded by his best friend, lawyer and neighbor, defense attorney Lenny Marcus.

Seidman had been recuperating for nearly two weeks and as he was about to be discharged he received a phone call from his father in law Edgar Portman… Read more

"Black" anti terrorist operation, July 5 2004

Christopher Whitcomb a former sniper with the prestigious FBI based Hostage Rescue Team has ample experience and resouces to fabricate the slick, crackling politcal thriller "Black". Whitcomb weaved together a series of plots involving the main characters in his novel that move toward a well conceived, albeit somewhat predictable conclusion.

Jeremy Waller, a recently recruited member of the Hostage Rescue Team is just getting his feet wet in their clandestine operations. Meanwhile multibillionaire telecommunications magnate, CEO of Borders Atlantic, Jordan Mitchell has just developed revolutionary cell phone encryption technology which prevents surveillance. A ruthless… Read more

Reacher aspires to exocise old demons, Jun 30 2004

Sauntering around the streets of Boston, ex-Army M.P. Jack Reacher inadvertantly encounters a ghost from his past. Francis Xavier Quinn, ex-Army lieutenant colonel based in intelligence had been caught treasonously selling military secrets to Syria in a Reacher orchestrated investigation. The arrest went sour, exacting a huge emotional toll on Reacher. An enraged Reacher mistakenly thought that he had dispatched Quinn with two gunshots to the head causing him to fall off a cliff into the Pacific. This chance meeting proved that to be incorrect.

Reacher calling in a favor from an old Army buddy, caused the raising of red flags when he asked for a license plate
check on Quinn's… Read more