Omerta by Mario Puzo; summary
A great mafia of Sicilian, Don Vicenco Zeno laid dying in his last worth to his faithfull men. The old Don chose American Raymonde Aprile to raise his young son, Astorre Zeno. Decades later, Don Raymonde Aprile was the greatest and most feared, remained untouched was found murdered. The FBI agent in charge in New York handle the assassination. The Don’s children were above suspicion. Second son, Marcantonio Aprile, head of programming of major TV network admitted that he grew up completely outside his father circle business. Oldest son, Valerius Aprile was a colonel in US Army and lecturer at West Point. He had spent most of last twenty years in army foreign post.
Red Dragon, a Novel by Thomas Harris: Summary
Jack Crawford was the supervisor the two times when he left FBI academy. He asked Graham back to the field for two cases. The rare psychopath, he killed the Jacobis in Birmingham and killed the Leeds family in Atlanta. Dr. Lecter, known in the tabloid as Hannibal the Cannibal, was the second psychopath Graham had caught. The looping scar was still across his stomach. Dr. Hannibal Lecter did that with a linoleum knife. It happened a year before Molly Foster met William Graham. It nearly killed him.
He was a forensic specialist. When he finally got out of the hospital, Graham resigned from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, left Washington and found a job as a diesel mechanic in the boatyard at Marathon in Florida Keys. Will was nearly forty but he had to start new job. It was a trade he grew up. Though at first his wife Molly disagreed but she helped him pack. He would go to Atlanta and Birmingham, then came on to Washington.
Lamentation (2015), a Historical Novel by C.J. Sansom: Summary
It is map of Whitehall Palace and Chatherine Parr abbreviated family tree before chapter one. This is the story of Serjeant Mathew Shardlake, a serjeant, the most senior of barrister. He did not want to attend the burning but as senior barrister, he had to witness it. Reformist Anne Askew and three others were sentenced to burn alive for heretical reason. Master Shardlake was on Mistress Isabel Slanning against her own brother Edward Cotterstoke.
Before her death in deathbed, a priest made a Will for Mrs. Deborah Cotterstoke. Her money was split equally between her two children. Edward like Isabel was moderately wealthy – and for both of them, their mother estate would make them richer. The problem had arisen when the Will came to specify the disposition of the house’s contents.
The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
The fifty-eight-year-old philanthropist, historian, and scientist had taken Langdon under his wing nearly thirty years ago. Despite the man influential family dynasty and massive wealth, Langdon had found humility and warmth in Solomon’s eyes. Professor Langdon had welcomed well in US Capitol. The Smithsonian Institution belonged to Peter Solomon was far from Capitol building.
Khaterine Solomon, younger sister to Peter, had never married. Science had become her like partner, and her work had proven more fulfilling and exciting than any man could ever hope to be. Both of them are Mason. Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbol. Peter Solomon was kidnapped. Langdon found Peter’s body in Capitol Building with tattooed, tiny symbols on Peter’s fingertips. Langdon indentified the symbols linked to some theories and ancient stuff. Director Sato from CIA who led the investigation learned ancient symbol from Professor Langdon.
The Fourth Estate (1996), a novel by Jeffrey Archer: summary
Lubji Hoch in Douski, 1923
Lubji was born in a small stone cottage outskirts of Douski, a town that nestled on the Czech, Romanian and Polish borders. He could never be certain of the exact date of his birth, as the family kept no records, but he was roughly a year older than his brother and a year younger than his sister.
The tiny cottage in which they lived was owned by his great-uncle, a rabbi. The rabbi, the Ruthenian Jew, had repeatedly begged Zelta not to married marry Sergei Hoch, the son of a local cattle trader. The young girl had been too ashamed to admit to her uncle that she was pregnant with Sergei’s child.
The tiny cottage in which they lived was owned by his great-uncle, a rabbi. The rabbi, the Ruthenian Jew, had repeatedly begged Zelta not to married marry Sergei Hoch, the son of a local cattle trader. The young girl had been too ashamed to admit to her uncle that she was pregnant with Sergei’s child.
The Eye of God, James Rollins: summary
The story of Attila of Hun and Pope Leo I was on summer AD 453 in central Hungary. Attila’s barbarian horde were routing the northern Italy of Padua and Milan, slaughtering all in their path. They killed men, women and children. His Holiness Pope Leo I rode out from his earthly throne to meet the tyrant on banks of Lake Garda.
Rome was doomed to fall under the ungodly sword. Princess Ildiko was the daughter of a Burgundy prince. She was the King Attilla’s seventh wife, newly wed, and was bound to this barbarian lord by force of marriage and intrigue. She kept a mysterious box that consisted of the skulls and relic in ancient Jews script. Pope Leo I had offered them to Attila with a plea for Rome’s salvation. Ildiko bravely killed her barbarian husband.
Worth Dying For, A Jack Reacher Thriller by Lee Child
In part one, introducing a man, known as Eldridge Tyler was driving home with his young granddaughter in straight two-lane road in Nebraska. A big man in brown coat was intended to stop for one night on his long way to Virginia. He just checked in in small motel while drunk doctor was asking to help the patient over the phone by bar waiter.
Jack Reacher forced the only doctor of this town to help the lady in bleeding nose. Now, he involved with the Duncan family who run the town. Their grandparents was founder of the town. Jack Reacher was a really stranger and no motive for helping locals out of power of Duncans. Until FBI and bad guys from Las Vegas came to this dark and small town.
The Chamber, a novel by John Grisham
The radical Jew lawyer Marvin Kramer, a fourth generation Mississippi Jew whose family had prospered as merchants in the Delta. He practiced law because commerced bored him. He spent three years in law school at Columbia, and when he returned to Greenville in 1964 the civil rights movements had center stage in Mississippi. Less than a month after opening his little law office, he was arrested for attempting to register black voters. Later, there were rumors of Lawyer Kramers using his own money to post bail for Freedom Riders and civil rights workers. He paid for the reconstruction for black church bombed by the Klan. His father and family were furious and embarrassed but Marvin could not have cared less. He started carrying gun and bought pistol for his wife, a Memphis girl. He had twin five-year-old sons. He had been paying the guard for two years. The Klan knew about the guard, then decision was made to bomb Marvin’s office, and not his home.
Testament (1975), a Novel by David Morrel: summary
The death of a cat, Samantha, was the first attack from Kess. Hours passed his infant son, Ethan was death too. It was poison in the milk. Reuben Bourne was a writer of book and article for magazine. He got lucky three years before with a novel that almost made the best sell lists and was turned into a movie. Once he wrote an article about Kess’s organization, he knew what kind of man Kess was.
The year before, three of Kess’s lieutenants had been charged with attempt assassination. That was in Hartford, Connecticut – their target a third term U.S Senator. The Kess organization run the company manufactures chemicals and electronics equipment. They need quick access to those chemicals and electronic instruments required for the kind of sophisticated explosives they plan to use in time of emergency. Kess told him months before that there were dozens organizations like them. And Bourne checked.
Edge of Eternity (2014), a Novel by Ken Follett: summary
The Franks, Berlin in 1961
East Germany was a Communist tyranny now, and Rebecca saw no point in engaging in politics. So she channeled her idealism into teaching, and hoped that the next generation would be less dogmatic, more compassionate, smarter. Her subject was Russian, but she also had to teach an English class. She did not speak English, though she had picked up a smattering from her British grandmother, Maud, still feisty at seventy.
The school was desperately short of teachers because half the staff had emigrated to West Germany, where salaries were higher and people were free. The story was the same in most schools in East Germany. And it was not just teachers. Doctors could double their earning by moving west. Bern Held was probably Rebecca’s best friend outside her family. He was a slim, dark-haired man of forty, with a livid scar he got while he was at war. He taught physics and a divorced man with no children.
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