The Writing Life (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It’s a familiar routine. I’m on the way to another conference as I write these words on an airplane. Airports have always been a fascinating opportunity to see what people are reading. Or I observe if they are reading at all. A cross section of the population travels on a regular basis. Some people use the travel time to catch up on their sleep. Others use the time to talk with a seatmate...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Here comes the annual onslaught of year-end “best books” lists, beginning with Publishers Weekly . There’s plenty of controversy surrounding the fact that none of the titles on PW ’s top-10 rundown was written by a woman . But what’s lost in all of that is the fact that so many choices in the Fiction and Mystery categories are crime fiction: Michael Connelly’s The...
SWAC Girl (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Oprah's book club ... Glenn Beck's promotion of books and their authors. The man some love to hate is a rising star to many wordsmiths who enjoy the benefit of his huge audience. The New York Times wrote: Virtually every novelist in America fantasizes about being picked to appear on Oprah Winfrey ’s talk show. But now an increasing number of writers have discovered a new champion: Glenn Beck...
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Filed under: International markets , Management , Industry , Competitive strategy , Economic data American businesses are setting up shop in Mexico instead of China . China, which was the number one location for manufacture of goods bound for the U.S., has fallen into third place. Mexico is now number one, followed by India. Several factors have converged to make Mexico an attractive place for manufacture....
Yoav's Space (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
The Defector is another book by Daniel Silva , and the immediate follow-up to the book I just reviewed, Moscow Rules . Warning: spoiler alert. If you're going to read Moscow Rules, skip the rest of this review until you're done. In a fairly predictable pattern, since Gabriel Allon (the hero in these two books and a few others) did not kill the ultimate villain of Moscow Rules, the same villain is up...
Yoav's Space (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Moscow Rules is another Gabriel Allon fiction novel by Daniel Silva . I like Silva as an author, and I like Allon as a character, so it's not surprising I like this book as a whole ;) I have an affinity for Israeli secret agent books, as readers of this blog probably know. (By the way, talking about readers: it looks like FriendFeed passed GoogleReader as my top RSS subscriber source this month. Interesting.)...
Sanguine et Purpure (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Sigma Phi Epsilon and Delta Phi Epsilon present Hall Brawls 2009 Daniel Silva Sigma Phi Epsilon and Delta Phi Epsilon held their third annual Hall Brawls event on Wednesday, October 7. The event was the largest ever, with over three hundred freshmen participating. Freshmen were divided into teams according to their residence hall floor, and competed against each other in several different sports including...
SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
We reported recently about the new sponsorship deal that The Crime Writers Association have agreed with Specsavers, ITV3, and Cactus TV over at The Rap Sheet. Now that the nominations for the CWA Daggers have been announced - the excitement is building. Photo from 2008 ITV-3 Thriller Awards (c) 2009 A Karim [Clockwise from top] Mark Billingham, Sharon Canaver, Lee Child, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham,...
Jewlicious (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
I’m way too cool to embarass myself on Jewlicious. So I did it on my blog! Come read and mock my mock Israeli-Mossad-spy thriller, based on Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon.
Euro Crime (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
The remaining 2009 CWA Dagger award shortlists have been announced today: The CWA Gold Dagger Kate Atkinson: When Will There Be Good News? (Black Swan/Transworld) Mark Billingham: In the Dark (Little, Brown) Lawrence Block: Hit and Run (Orion) William Broderick: A Whispered Name (Little, Brown) MR Hall: The Coroner (Pan Macmillan) Gene Kerrigan: Dark Times In The City (Harvill Secker) The Ian Fleming...
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
The Times On-line had a report ,” Missing channel pirate ship carried Russian arms for Iran” about the mystery Russian vessel , the M.V. Arctic Sea that sounds more like a real...
Central Crime Zone (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Here's some of our favorite bookstores and their best sellers for August Aunt Agatha's: THE AMATEURS, Marcus Sakey (signing) THE SILENT HOUR, Michael Koryta (signing) HEAVEN'S KEEP, WIlliam Kent Krueger AWAKENING, S.J. Bolton THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, Steig Larson (PB) Mysterious Bookshop in New York: Hardcover: 1. The Defector - Daniel Silva 2. Rules of Vengeance - Christopher Reich 3. Rain...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Everton kick off their Europa League (yes - that's what it's called now, deal with it) campaign tonight against the mighty Sigma Olomouc. If, for some reason, you don't know much about the men from the Czech Republic, MirrorFootball has compiled a handy guide… 1) Sigma come from Olomouc, a town of 110,381 people in the east of the Czech Republic. 2) Olomouc is named in the REM track Disappear...
Boswell and Books (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
I'm sure a fan would never get Terry Goodkind and Terry Brooks confused, but I would think that for other important folks might get confused. That's why I'm kind of surprised that The Law of Nines and The Princess of Landover are both coming out today. For most indie bookstores, the big release would be Philippa Gregory's The White Queen . It's a new series set during The War of the Roses. Like many...
brucevgnid | 08/17/2009
"The Defector" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 480 pages, $26.95), by Daniel Silva: Gabriel Allon's big mistake at the close of Daniel Silva's 2008 spy thriller, "Moscow Rules," was to spare the life of Ivan Kharkov, the ruthless Russian oligarch and arms supplier to al-Qaida. But it was an astute decision for Silva, one that set the stage for another confrontation between the two mortal enemies
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brucevgnid | 08/17/2009
"The Defector" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 480 pages, $26.95), by Daniel Silva: Gabriel Allon's big mistake at the close of Daniel Silva's 2008 spy thriller, "Moscow Rules," was to spare the life of Ivan Kharkov, the ruthless Russian oligarch and arms supplier to al-Qaida. But it was an astute decision for Silva, one that set the stage for another confrontation between the two mortal enemies and demonstrates...
guidah0c8a | 08/15/2009
"The Defector" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 480 pages, $26.95), by Daniel Silva: Gabriel Allon's big mistake at the close of Daniel Silva's 2008 spy thriller, "Moscow Rules," was to spare the life of Ivan Kharkov, the ruthless Russian oligarch and arms supplier to al-Qaida. But it was an astute decision for Silva, one that set the stage for another confrontation between the two mortal enemies and demonstrates...
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