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'City of Gold'
'For All The Tea In China'
'Get Shorty'
'Isle of Joy'
'The Fan'
'The Long Kiss Goodnight'
'The Quick and The Dead'
'The White Hand'

BY: Len Deighton, PRICE: £4.99, PUBLISHER: Arrow, ISBN: 0-09-991890-0.

Len Deighton is a master of his craft, using historical backdrops to his evolving thriller. This book follows Rommels spy in Africa. If don't enjoy highly descriptive books, avoid, else for the rest of us this book is a pleasure.

RATING: 3/5

FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA

BY: Stephen Sheppard, PRICE: Unknown, PUBLISHER: Tudor Publishing Company (1988), ISBN: 0-944276-28-8.

A very different type of thriller set in China at the turn of the twentieth century. Two men, friends in the past, not now, both gambler become involved in one final bet, to race their old sea ships against a steam ship from China to England. This book is different but enthralling.

RATING: 3.5/5

GET SHORTY

BY: Elmore Leonard, PRICE: £5.99, PUBLISHER: Penguin (1995), ISBN: 0-14-024812-9.

Strangely funny story about a criminal trying to break into the world of Hollywood as an actor.

RATING: 2.5/5

ISLE OF JOY

BY: Don Winslow, PRICE: £5.99, PUBLISHER: Arrow (1996), ISBN: 0-09-970641-5.

Interesting story about a senator, his dead ex girlfriend, and an ex cop hired to protect her. Lots of twists in the tale of this story.

RATING: 3/5

THE FAN

BY: Peter Abrahams, PRICE: £5.99, PUBLISHER: Warner Books (1996), ISBN: 0-7515-1675-9.

Yet another book which has become a movie film. This one is quite unique it's about an obsessive fan who makes his baseball player hero's life hell. The fan goes to quite extreme lengths, he feels the his life revolves around his hero. They storyline does show to the reader what it means to be famous at the same time it comes with the territory!, great spellbinding story.

RATING: 4/5

THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT

BY: Randall Boyll, PRICE: £5.99, PUBLISHER: Warner Books (1996), ISBN: 0-7515-1397-0.

Action packed booked based on the film, usually it's the other way. If you've seen the film you'll know the story, if you don't it's about an ex assassin whose past catches up with her. Good thriller.

RATING: 3.5/5

THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

BY: Jack Curtis, PRICE: £4.99, PUBLISHER: Harper Collins (1995), ISBN: 0-00-649651-2.

Another book based on a film. This time the heroine is a woman in the old wild west, who sees her father murdered when she is very young, she then grows up and tries to get revenge by entering a gun duel tournament hosted by her fathers killer. Lots of twists and turns, good read.

RATING: 3/5

THE WHITE HAND

BY: Jean Warmbold, PRICE: Unk, PUBLISHER: Tudor Publishing Inc (1988), ISBN: 0-944276-59-8.

Nice late 1980's thriller about a pregnant women, a terrorist group and a reporter. Not mind numbingly enthralling but never the less a change from normal thriller books, worth a look for reading on a long journey.

RATING: 3/5

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