Robert Harris...'Fatherland' is a good read. I've now read most of the Lee Child, 'Jack Reacher' novels, which have already been mentioned on here. Gladly, I read most of them before the books were ruined by Tom Cruise playing the role of Jack Reacher in the film. He killed it.
You and Badger aren't book salesmen are you? I will be eagerly trying to hunt down this hitherto unheard of trilogy.
Booksellers must be a dying breed, 80% of my reading is on the Kindle/iPad now.........Waterstone's drives me round the bend, they never have what I want in there. If you find some Ellroy and enjoy it let us know. Then I'll get you on to Roberto Bolano.........
Would a book salesman buy his books in a charity shop?? Probably. I spent a year working nights in a publishers warehouse. It was a weird place to work but I got hundreds of books out of it on the cheap, every month they would sell off damaged stock...think my best haul was about £250 worth of books for £5. Think I gathered most of the Ellroy, Murikami and Palahniuk books while working there. Enjoy some Ellroy, it's worth the hunt!
Ease yourself in with 'Nazi Literature in the Americas', a series of completely fictitious mini biographies of invented right wing nutters (Bolano of course is from the other end of the spectrum) including Argentinian football ultras. But the big ones are The Savage Detectives a surreal search through Mexico and Spain for some strange poets; and 2666, also a search for a perhaps mythical author but tied into the (horribly true) serial killings of women in Northern Mexico. Actually both books defy proper description.
have given the jack reacher stuff a go read two of them never again I hope the rest are not as bad as the 2 I read awful stuff imho
That book would have to be a very learning experience, Staines R's. I'm currently re-reading 'Albert Speer - Inside the Third Reich' ISBN 297 00015 2 ( nearly 600 pages ) .......... written by himself whilst in prison for his part in Hitler's activities. There would not be another person under Hitler's control who would have the overall knowledge of what the Gestapo, Luftwaffe and the German armies were doing. This person was Hitler's second in command and oversaw everything, including building works, concentration camps, slave labour and the making weapons etc. There is so much happening, it is really hard to put the book down for a spell. A fantastic read and a real eye opener as to real events of WW2. Cheers, Aussie.
