Spy thrillers
First Impressions When a judge goes missing in a fly-in Alaskan village during a storm, you know it won’t end with cocoa by the fire. The Setup Cutter investigates in Stone Cross, where mistrust and snowstorms isolate everyone. What Worked for Me – Isolation atmosphere. This was tough. When we lived in Bethel I struggled … Read more
First Impressions Bosch and Haller fighting for the wrongly convicted. The whole ‘reluctant brother’ thing is the hook for me. The Setup Haller takes a case, Bosch hunts evidence. What Worked for Me – Bosch-Haller partnership. Bosch is retired, but is eternally an investigator. Despite his misgivings about working for the defense, he agrees to … Read more
First Impressions If Sam Gerard moved to Alaska, he’d probably look a lot like Arliss Cutter. The Setup Cutter, a U.S. Marshal, hunts for a missing deputy in Alaska’s brutal wilderness. What Worked for Me – Alaska as villainous setting. My wife and I lived in Western Alaska for three and a half years and … Read more
Orphan X is next as I’ve been plowing through the usual suspects in the genre I call ‘guys with guns’. Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills have all been sampled. Now it’s the Orphan series’s turn. The premise is a black ops organization filled with orphans selected and trained to be killers for the government. … Read more