Tristan Betrayal (2003) by Robert Ludlum: summary
Paris, November 1940
Paris, city of the light had gone dark since Nazi had invaded, then seized control of France sixth months earlier. Eifell Tower, where once the French tricolor rippled, a Nazi swastika flag waved. Transportation was huge problem those days. Since only doctors, fireman, and for some reason leading actors and actresses were allowed to drive their own cars, the Metro was ridiculously overcrowded, and half the stations were closed. There was no patrol to be had, and no taxicabs. A bookshop that once owned by a Jew had been taken over by the Germans. Once it had been an elegant foreign bookstore; now it was foreign in another way; it sold nothing but German books.
Royal Assassin, the Farseer Trilogy (1996) by Robin Hobb: summary
To be the King in-Waiting, or the Queen-in-Waiting, is firmly straddle the fence between responsibility and authority. It is said the position was created to satisfy the ambitions of an heir power, while schooling him in the exercising of it. The eldest child in the royal family assumes the position upon the sixteenth birthday. Under King Shrewd, Prince Chivalry first became king in waiting. When Chivalry abdicated and Prince Verity became king-in-waiting, he inherited all the war with Outislanders, and the civil unrest this situation created between the Inland and Coastal Duchies.
Children of Time (2015), Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a Sci-Fi Novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky: summary
Earth had been green, in her day, though her colors had faded since. Perhaps never as green as the beautifully crafted world though, where even the oceans glittered emerald with the phytoplankton maintaining the oxygen balance within the atmosphere. All nineteen of them, though the fifteen were in the control room with the chief. Doctor Avrana Kern looked out upon her project, her dream, her planet. The Kern’s World is the future where mankind takes its next great step. His engineering teams under Doctors Fallarn and Medi were well on their way.
Sacrifice, a Novel by George Brown: Summary
The two Arabs were shot down at St Anne’s Park, Dublin. The Irishman his back torn by half magazine of bullet covered in blood on his hands and knees. Killing the Arabs was good move. Major David Murray did a proper job of work but tried to think who did that. They couldn’t make up their minds whether it’s drug people moving into the game. General Sir Richard Anderson had had a full war in field. For the last ten years, had been head of the special intelligence group formed by Mrs. Thatcher in early eighties. Sanderson answered only one executive and the incumbent prime minister. Clive Reason was still in his thirties, black, graduate of Parachute Regiment School he was Sanderson’s number two.
Inca Gold, A Dirk Pitt Novel, by Clive Cussler: Summary
It was a forgotten sea in AD 1533. The warrior in golden was founded death in a small island. Unlike the dark-skinned natives their jet black hair, the dead man had white skin and blond hair. He wore only ornate, embroidered tunic. All of the golden face mask, helmet, and bracelet were gone. The witness had to accept what they had seen. Without knowledge, the myths were born. Through time, stories grew and faded until it was a vague supernatural folklore handed down from generation to generation.
Eternity (1988), a Science Fiction by Greg Bear: Summary
Recovered Earth, Independent Territory of New Zealand, A.D 2046
Lanier tried to look at the mourners and found only sadness and a nervous humility. The coffin leaned and creaked in the dirt. Lanier imagined Lawrence Heineman was finding his grave an uneasy bed. A priest of the New Church of Rome spoke Latin over the grave. Up there, in the sky, among orbiting precincts, the Hexamon conducted its business, yet had sent no representative from those august heavenly bodies; and indeed, considering how Larry had come to feel about the Hexamon, that gesture would have been inappropriate. Garry Lanier stood with Karen, his wife of almost four decades. Born in Hunan, China, of defected from England. She had less Western perspective. She had still had high hopes, still worked on her various projects. They had had expectations for the Recovery- how things had change- divisions, separation, and disaster. She was still of the faith, believing in future, in the Hexamon’s effort.
Are You Afraid of the Dark, a Novel by Sidney Sheldon: summary
The book starts out with the death of four people in four cities. A woman was killed in Berlin, a pilot in Denver, a scientist in Manhattan, and an American scientist in Paris. Diane Stevens was in her thirties. She gave dangerous testimony for an Italian Mafia in a court for Anthony Altieri murder trial. Detective Earl Greenburg from Manhattan South Homicide Squad and his teams found the body carelessly tossed down under the bridge. A note was found in his jacket’s pocket and it’s written in Italian. A woman in Berlin was found death. Mark Harris was found death in Paris and there was a note in his pocket.
Roofworld (1988), a novel by Christopher Fowler: summary
A man called Imperator Chymes led an unusual rite, sacrificing a boy with powering the black powder covering his body for impurity of soul. His mouth was full of the sour of black mud, the boy refused to turn about and confront his captors. The light of London streets seemed blurred and muted by the falling rain. The body fell like a burning comet, his body ablaze with electrical fire, and he hit the rain-bloated gutter of the city street below.
The Fireman (2016), an Apocalyptic Thriller by Joe Hill: summary
School was suspended statewide that evening, with assurances they would open when the crisis passed. As it happened, it never passed. Harper imagined she would have the house to herself, but when she got home, Jakob Grayson was already there. Half the kids in school saw it. A man was in the playground around staggering like a drunk. Then he fell down and caught fire. He burned up like he was made of straw. Half the kids saw it.
Harper had only been working at Portsmouth hospital for three weeks as the volunteer nurse. A man wore the same yellow rubber jacket all the fireman wore and he had a child in his arms, a boy, hugging him around the neck. A hundred and thirty-one of them, weary and strained with Dragonscale, they also in the line were having the emergency. His English accent distracted Harper, it was her job to keep the people who were waiting content. The boy was not his son. The fireman was with a dangerously ill child and a heavy iron bar, a hooligan thing.
A Clash of Kings (1999), a Fantasy Novel by George R.R, Martin: summary
Renly had made his own Kingsguard, Loras Tyrell’s their Lord Commander. Stannis Baratheon, Lord of Dragonstone and by the grace of the gods rightful heir to the Iron Thorne of the Seven Kingdoms of Westereos, was broad of shoulder and sinewy of limb, with tightness to his face and flesh that spoke of leather cured in the sun until it was as though s steel. Hard was the word men used when they spoke of Stannis, and hard he was. Renly was the Lord of Storm’s End for past thirteen years. Storm’s End belonged to House Baratheon for three hundred years, by rights it should pass to Stannis when Robert took the Iron Throne. Stannis was named as Lord of Dragonstone.
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