Fist-flying crime-solver Jack Reacher is back, this time in a tale that looks at once backward and forward while solving a murder near a military base. So, I used to have a rural fantasy. Then I started reading the Jack Reacher novels.
Schlagwort-Archive: Los Angeles Times
Rezension: Patrick Carman: »Dark Eden«
Is it just a book? A film? An audio book? »Dark Eden« is all three! Patrick Carman’s »Dark Eden« is a multimedia offering, but even in its simple print form it is a compelling read about seven terrified teens in a backwoods adventure.
Filmrezension: »London Boulevard«
William Monahans movie »London Boulevard«, starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley, is a pitch-black thriller with ruthless drug bosses and relentless paparazzi sharing bad guy billing. Would that the movie were pitch perfect as well.
Rezension: Garner/Winokur: »The Garner Files«
Many actors have breathed life into a memorable or even iconic role but only a few are capable of reconstructing an archetype. James Garner stepped into two of TV’s most calcified genres and set a new standard that others have been chasing down since.
Rezension: Colson Whitehead: »Zone One«
Colson Whitehead really couldn’t have picked a better time to write a zombie novel. Even looking past its Halloween-adjacent release date, »Zone One« comes at a time when such horrors are enjoying a pop culture renaissance.
Rezension: Stuart Neville: »Stolen Souls«
Stuart Neville’s third novel »Stolen Souls« is a masterpiece of hard-edged, fast-paced Irish crime fiction about a Ukrainian sex slave’s desperate bid to elude sinister forces. Nothing for the faint of heart.