It's been over two years since I wrote a review of Blaine Pardoe's Blue Dawn. My apologies to Mr. Pardoe for taking so long to get around to reading book 2 in the Blue Dawn series, A Most Uncivil War. It was on my reading list, but in preparation for my own follow up to a book, Friendship Games...
Manuscript for book #3 - the follow-up to Friendship Games - is done!
Tayfun Ulusoy flew into Baghdad as his first foreign assignment as Grand Vizier. The international airport at Baghdad was captured by Türkiye's special forces, the Bordo Bereliler—the Maroon Berets—not long before they had liberated the American Embassy there.
That's right, I've reached the halfway point for book #3.
It's been seven months - seven! - since I reported reaching 20,000 words with novel #3.
Mark James' Friendship Games is a masterful geo-political thriller that follows the deadly consequences of an explosion in the Persian Gulf, when an American aircraft carrier, the USS George W. Bush, is attacked and sunk. A thrilling look at the chaos of modern warfare, this gripping narrative spans continents, perspectives, and ideologies,...
I've always been a news junkie, even as a teenager. It is good to be informed and to know what is going on in the world around you.
What a week it's been. More like 15 months.
There's no Jack Ryan. No Jason Bourne. There's no Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp, or Alex Fletcher. No heroic wrecking ball super-agent or humble dad with a mysterious special forces background.
The election of 2024 has come and gone. Polls were tight right up to election day, nearly all of them within the margin of error. Still, it came as a surprise when Kamala Harris won 7 million votes less than Joe Biden in 2020. Donald Trump, meanwhile, picked up 2.2 million more votes than he had in 2020. Unlike...