Finished your book mate and it's a really good read. All readers on here get your hands in ya pockets and get it bought. Loved the Danny Alsopp character by the way
Cheers Rover, I'm really pleased you enjoyed it - means a lot to be appreciated by City fans. I suspect only City fans will get the Danny Allsopp reference - a little homage to a hero from better times. A little bit of trivia - don't know if you ever watched New Tricks but the 3 detectives, Halford, Lane and Standing, got their names because the writer was a WBA fan and they were named after his favourite stand!
Lee Child - The Sentinel It’s ok, standard Child really (although this one is coauthored by his brother too) But it gets bogged down in trying to shoe horn very unsubtle references to Russian interference in US elections and knobheady right wing groups in the vein of the Proud Boys Unnecessarily too as the basic story didn’t need it Three stars
Pundits and governments just might have given Russia too much credit, he says, when a whole system of manipulating people's perception and psychology was engineered and operated from within the US. "Russia played such a minor role that they weren't even a blip on the radar," the hacker told me recently. "This was normal for politicians, though… if you say a lie enough times, everyone will believe it." https://arstechnica.com/information...a-pro-trump-fake-news-empire-unmasks-himself/
I truism long before the invention of the internet. Was it Mark Twain who first said "a lie makes it halfway around the world before the truth gets his shoes on?" Now with the internet the lie has a 1,000x+ head start.
Just finished the Bob Mortimer bio ''And Away ...'' an entertaining book from a genuinely funny man; the book charts his rise from young smoggie to the present day, the book includes how he met Vic, his painful shyness and later, heart disease and how that changed his outlook on life. I think anyone who's enjoyed the five series of Mortimer and Whitehouse; Gone Fishing will really love this book. Highly recommend!
Currently reading and really enjoying it. Chris Hillman- Time Between: My life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother, and Beyond
I'm presently reading a book titled The Cause, about the evolution of the cause behind the American Revolution. We seldom hear (over here, at least) of the conflicts regarding primacy between Parliament and the Crown sparked by Blackstone's Commentaries; a dispute which was the underlying impetus for the Townshend Acts.
Just finished 'The Abstainer' by Ian McGuire, he's the Hull fella who wrote 'The North Water'. Decent read, he does a good line in very violent men. Wonder if he's Hessle Road stock?
Try "The Anomaly" Herve Le Tellier. Just translated into English. He is a French author. Good read especially if you like Sci-Fi.
