Pirates (or privateers) always make sensational subjects, so author Stephan Talty didn't need much embellishment to make the tale of Henry Morgan into a fast-paced and thrilling book. I've read a handful of other accounts of Morgan and other privateers and found this one of the most successful r...
Rating: 4* of fiveThe Publisher Says: In this explosive debut thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water, a brilliant homicide detective returns home, where she confronts a city’s dark demons and her own past while pursuing a brutal serial killer on a vengeful rampa...
Far from being the Protestant beacon that Oliver Cromwell had envisioned, Port Royal was now known as the undisputed Western capital of sin. Priests sent to the country reported back on “the Torrent of Wickedness and Vice rushing through” its streets. The thousands of pounds’ worth of illicit goo...
Lhasans were used to hearing the bells and the horns that normally rang out from the temples of the Potala just after dawn, calling the monks to prayer. They heard nothing that morning except the chatter of birds. The monks who normally worked the bell ropes were hurrying to the storage rooms of ...
The White CityLISBON WAS THEN KNOWN as “the capital of espionage,” a vast open market for illicit information, casual betrayal, currency smuggling, drugs, murder and deception. Portugal was neutral in the conflict, and Lisbon’s airport was the only one in Europe that still maintained flights to b...
He checked his luggage and proceeded to the gate. He showed his ticket and boarded a small propeller plane to Berlin. The other passengers on board were well-dressed, in suits and dresses, a business crowd in a time when flying was still an upper-class thing. Just before the plane taxied to the r...
The garage smelled of lawn mower, a mix of old grass cuttings and oil, and damp newspapers. The garage was old, a one-car wooden shack separate from the house, a Victorian he’d been watching all day. He could hear the noise of cars passing in the street, faintly. Not much traffic, a nice quiet bl...
He had lost an average of 3,000 men every day of his campaign. The majority of those deaths, perhaps as many as 200,000, were from disease, with typhus the lead killer. One doctor called it a dying-off that “had scarcely a parallel in the history of the world.”The Grande Armée didn’t keep precise...