I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it, Scott! When you finished it, I'm sure you'll want to read THE CROSS.

Right again. Of course with an ending like that you don't have much choice at all if you liked what you'd just read-which I did. Thanks for the recommendation.

I can never read one book at a time. I recently read "The River of Doubt - Teddy Roosevelts Darkest Journey". Amazing story about his journey down a previously un-navigated river in the Amazon. Re-read Peter Straub's "Ghost Story", the BEST ghost story book I have ever read (sorry FPW). Also, recently finished "Endurance" about the most incredible true adventure story ever of Earnest Shackleton. Finally, currently reading "Forever Young, Forever Healthy" by Indra Devi. It is an introductory book about yoga.

Starting a new author, Tess Gerritsen. Just finished The Surgeon and I am hooked. Starting on The Apprentice now. This is the book series that the TNT show Rizzoli and Isles comes from. Never seen the show but now I want to check it out.

Gotta get me one of those ereader things. Is there one it's safe to put in your back pocket yet?

iPhone. Had my 3Gs for a long time, always in my back pocket and it never broke when I sat on it on brick walls, against metal railings and such. And Retina Display makes text look like it's been printed on screen. Oh, and it makes phone calls, too

I've fallen for the Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child and have been reading a few now back to back. Good thing I just downloaded Nightworld on Amazon! Can't wait to see what changes FPW made!

Just finished Scott Mariani's THE HERETIC'S TREASURE. 4th Ben Hope novel. It was excellent!



An ancient fortune has lain hidden for thousands of years, one so powerful that men will kill to protect it. And only one man can unearth it! Ex-SAS operative Ben Hope is living a peaceful life in rural France - until a phone call from an old army comrade turns his world upside down. Eminent Egyptologist Morgan Paxton has been brutally murdered while working on the mysterious 'Akhenaten Project' in Cairo, and Colonel Harry Paxton wants Ben to find his son's killer. Ben is unable to refuse the request from the man who once saved his life - but when Harry asks him to avenge his son's death he's in dangerous territory. Made worse by the fact that he finds himself attracted to Zara Paxton, Harry's new bride. Carving through the seedy Cairo underworld, Ben soon realises that there was more to Paxton's research than meets the eye as he is plunged into one double-cross after another. His mission leads him from Italy and Paris via the coast of Scotland to the banks of the Nile, climaxing in a tense showdown in the war-torn Sudanese desert. At the end of the trail lies the ultimate treasure, hidden away by three rebel High Priests during the reign of the 'Heretic' Pharoah Akhenaten - a collection so valuable that some will stop at nothing to possess it! A super-charged, heart-racing thriller, perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Sam Bourne and Wilbur Smith.

I've got a deployment (yes another one) coming up soon and I want to get an e-reader and load it up before I go. I was thinking the Kindle Fire but I know so little about the e-readers. I don't know what wi-fi is like over there except if it is available on the bigger FOBs it expensive as hell and a foreign company. So having a wi-fi device isn't necessary just something I can have a bunch of books loaded on to before I leave.

Any suggestions?

I have a Kindle. Not the Fire or even a touch screen but I love it. I did research before chosing it and lots of little things had me choose Kindle over Nook. Another selling point with me is that Amazon offers tons of free books all the time. I looked for that at Barnes and Noble and couldn't find near as many. True most of them are books I've never heard of but I've discovered a lot of great new authors this way. And there are tons of post apocalyptic books that are free; and I'm really into those. Pricewise, Kindle books vs Nook books are about the same but I think Amazon gets some new books before B&N does. Not on the bigger named authors (they come out about the same) but some of the smaller authors. Hope it helps!

As to what I am reading now: Dead Lock by Sean Black. Second book in the Ryan Lock series. When I get the first two books on Amazon they were freebies so this is an example of another new favorite author discovered for free.

http://www.amazon.com/Sean-Black/e/B003M...sr=1-2-ent

I am now well into I Don't Want To Kill You, the third installment in Dan Wells 'Serial Killer" trilogy and it is as good as the first two.

I'm reading Dan Wells' The Hollow City and it's fantastic. It's about a schizophrenic and it's told in the first person. So both the reader and the narrator don't know what's real and what isn't.

I went to a book signing for that. Dan Wells said that he has three more books to write and then he's getting back to John Wayne Cleaver. He also recommended Barry Lyga's I Hunt Killers. I've finished that one and it's as good as the John Wayne Cleaver books. Just without the supernatural element. <-highlight me