I haven’t actually “read” a book in years since I started using Audible, and I just finished The Rock Hole by Reavis Z Wortham. It’s a mystery set in 1964 in north TX/Hugo, OK area.
I listen to a lot of books on Audible, too. The OHP frowns on actually reading books while driving...I haven’t actually “read” a book in years since I started using Audible
It may not be for you, but I just finished it, and I'd recommend giving it another go. It jumps all over the place once it gets going, following many different Afghans (and Afghan-Americans) helped by Operation Pineapple Express as they shepherded them through a veritable Underground Railroad into HKIA and on to freedom.
It also underlines what an absolute Charlie Foxtrot Biden's Bungle was, and if you had any doubts about what a useless political ***** Milley is, this book will erase them. It's ironic that the CIA kept its promises to its "thuggish" Afghan mercs, but the US Military couldn't be bothered to help its allies, despite the fact that abandoning them constituted a very real national security threat--many of them would be hotly sought by Russian and Chinese military intelligence because they knew not only the TTPs of US SOF, but also the real names and phone numbers of many of the US SOF operators. How in the hell they could leave rescuing those people to a bunch of retired veterans is just mind-boggling as hell...
Absolutely, but if a person is sensitive to graphic imagery it might be a pass. The internal dialogue captured in a book versus on the screen has a huge impact on the story being told.American Psycho.
It's waaaay better than the movie.
If you like science fiction, I've burned my way through a couple of series lately that I love. It's easier to give the author for one series because Daniel Gibbs has multiple series set in the same world. He writes military scifi but with the addition of an interesting take on religion. The backstory is of a war between a group of humans who escaped from an Earth that had been taken over by the League of Sol, a communistic regime. The Terran Coalition has decided that there's more that unites them than separates them so Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others fight sided by side to stop the spread of League socialism. The best part is that the religious aspect isn't heavy-handed and doesn't intrude on the overall story. I'd recommend that you start with Fight the Good Fight, the first book in his first series, Echoes of War.
The second series is Backyard Spaceship, by J.N. Chaney and Terry Maggert, is a series about a man who inherits his grandfather's farm in Iowa. In the barn, he discovers a spaceship and a snarky birdlike "Combat AI" that were his grandfather's partners in a galactic police force call the Peacemakers. And yes, I said "partners" as the ship also has an AI. There's eleven books in this series with the final book due in February. It's hilarious and full of action at the same time. If you have Amazon Prime, you can even borrow the first book, also named Backyard Starship, for free.
I'll have to go look for your first series, and second you on your second! Reading the11th now. And I'll add another series on Amazon, Bob's Saucer Repair (1st title), by Jerry Boyd. I've bought all 30 of them, so far. I keep hoping they turn out to not be fiction, too! I want to work for Bob's Saucer Repair!If you like science fiction, I've burned my way through a couple of series lately that I love. It's easier to give the author for one series because Daniel Gibbs has multiple series set in the same world. He writes military scifi but with the addition of an interesting take on religion. The backstory is of a war between a group of humans who escaped from an Earth that had been taken over by the League of Sol, a communistic regime. The Terran Coalition has decided that there's more that unites them than separates them so Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others fight sided by side to stop the spread of League socialism. The best part is that the religious aspect isn't heavy-handed and doesn't intrude on the overall story. I'd recommend that you start with Fight the Good Fight, the first book in his first series, Echoes of War.
The second series is Backyard Spaceship, by J.N. Chaney and Terry Maggert, is a series about a man who inherits his grandfather's farm in Iowa. In the barn, he discovers a spaceship and a snarky birdlike "Combat AI" that were his grandfather's partners in a galactic police force call the Peacemakers. And yes, I said "partners" as the ship also has an AI. There's eleven books in this series with the final book due in February. It's hilarious and full of action at the same time. If you have Amazon Prime, you can even borrow the first book, also named Backyard Starship, for free.
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