LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART SEVENTY-SIX

Could possibly be the tub of The Vietnam War this week.....

I had a big fascination with this conflict, probably because I could dimly recall seeing news reports in the TV as I was growing up. Back in the 80s and early 90s I used to read a lot about it both memoirs and fiction. I can't recall the last Vietnam book I read. I ought to read something related soon - does the fascination still hold or have I moved on?

Tub 76

Ian Rankin x 2, David Corbett, David Mark, Tom Kakonis,

One of my all time favourite authors!

“A cracking good crime thriller that resurrects both the gambling hero of Kakonis' Michigan Roll and the exhilaratingly tough, yet deeply humane, storytelling that made that first novel one of the most memorable in recent crime fiction,” Kirkus Reviews

A mob boss has given professional gambler Timothy Waverly two weeks to make good on a $300,000 debt…or die at the hands of two hit men. Waverly’s only hope is convince a pill-popping, ex-girlfriend and her loser husband to set him up in a series of high-stakes poker games in Palm Beach with a rich Arab prince who cheats at cards. But that’s not the only game that’s rigged. Waverly knows he’s going to be killed as soon as he pays his debt…and that somehow he’s got to cheat death in the ultimate gamble.

Charles Cumming, Frances FitzGerald, Pete Dexter, Peter Temple, Tom Mangold/John Penycate,

Pete Dexter - not an author I have tried yet.

Ian Rankin x 3, Pete Dexter, Ryan David Jahn,

3 x Rebus, probaby not one for bedtime reading! I'll break my arm.

Ryan David Jahn 

From the author of the award-winning debut crime novel Good Neighbors-a white-knuckle thriller about the lengths a man will go to for his daughter.

The phone rings. It's your daughter. She's been dead for four months.

So begins East Texas police dispatcher Ian Hunt's fight to get his daughter back. The call is cut off by the man who snatched her from her bedroom seven years ago, and a basic description of the kidnapper is all Ian has to go on. What follows is a bullet-strewn cross-country chase from Texas to California along Interstate 10- a wild ride in a 1965 Mustang that passes through the outlaw territory of No Country for Old Men and is shot through with moments of macabre violence that call to mind the novels of Thomas Harris.

Justin Rose, Robert Newman, Martina Cole, Rick Gekoski, Andrew Weist (ed.)

Sporting diary following Coventry City's fortunes!

Justin Scott and a series book

Harlan Coben, Tonino Benacquista, Sebastian Faulks, Anthony Horowitz, Blaine Harden,

Fun times in North Korea

Made into a film starring De Niro

Imagine The Sopranos transplanted to the French countryside... .

This thrillingly comic, internationally bestselling Mafia farce is the inspiration for the major motion picture The Family starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tommy Lee Jones, and produced by Martin Scorsese.

The Blakes are newcomers to a small town in Normandy. Fred is a historian researching the Allied landings, Maggie enjoys charity work, and their kids are looking forward to meeting other teenagers at the local lycee. Or so it seems.

In fact, Fred is really Giovanni Manzoni, an ex-goodfella turned stool pigeon who's been relocated from New Jersey to France by the FBI's witness protection program. He's got a two-million-dollar bounty on his head, but he and his family can't help attracting attention (imagine the Sopranos in Normandy). And when imprisoned mobster Don Mimino gets wind of their location, it's Mafia mayhem a la Josh Bazell's Beat the Reaper, or like The Godfather as if written by Carl Hiaasen. Because while you can take the man out of the Mafia, you can't take the Mafia out of the man.

Time-Life Vietnam series books

One from a 25 book series, I didn't manage to stay subscribed for the whole run.

Part-work magazine on Nam - 36 episodes in all. Published 1990 - I suppose I ought to start reading them! 

James W. Hall, Oliver Stark, Harry Crews, John Lanchester,

Harry Crews - quite a rare book!

Straight out of college, a guy joins a karate troupe on a Florida beach, The "Karatekas." Action adventure w/ babes, sun & sand.

Poetry in the tubs! James W. Hall better known for his Thorn mysteries! 

Dick Francis x 3, Val McDermid, William Marsden/Julian Sher

Tony Hill/Carol Jordan

Francis 3-fer from the 60s

Adam Blade, James Patterson, Breece D'J Pancake, Stephen King

Collection of short stories from short-lived author.

Tub 76 - put to bed!

HIGHLIGHTS....... Ryan David Jahn, a bit of Ian Rankin, David Corbett, Tom Kakonis

LOWLIGHTS....... a couple of children's books I seem to have hoovered up from my son's collection when he was a lot younger. If I read them I read them, but unlikely.

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR		TITLE	YEAR	SERIES
(NTVE-10)		NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 10 THE AFTERMATH	1990	10
(NTVE-11) BAKER	MARK	NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 11 NAM	1990	11
(NTVE-12) MASON	ROBERT	NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 12 CHICKENHAWK	1990	12
(NTVE-8)		NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 8 CAMBODIA AND THE EASTER INVASION	1990	8
(NTVE-9)		NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 9 AIR WAR AND THE SOUTH ABANDONED	1990	9
(NVTE-13) CHANOFF/VAN TOAI	DAVID/DOAN	NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 13 PORTRAIT OF THE ENEMY	1990	13
(NVTE-14) O'BRIEN	TIM	NAM: THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 14 IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE	1990	14
(TVE-10) MILLS	NICK	THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: A NATION DIVIDED	1984	10
(TVE-12) DOUGAN	CLARK	THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: A COLLISION OF CULTURES	1985	12
(TVE-13) DOLEMAN	EDGAR C.	THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: TOOLS OF WAR	1985	13
(TVE-17) FISCHER	J.	THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: IMAGES OF WAR	1986	17
(TVE-8) DOYLE	EDWARD	THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHER	1984	8
BENACQUISTA	TONINO	BADFELLAS	2010
BLADE	ADAM	NANOOK THE SNOW MONSTER	2007	BQ5
COBEN	HARLAN	CAUGHT	2010
COLE	MARTINA	BROKEN	2000
CORBETT	DAVID	THE DEVIL'S REDHEAD	2002
CREWS	HARRY	KARATE IS A THING OF THE SPIRIT	1972
CUMMING	CHARLES	THE TRINITY SIX	2011
DEXTER	PETE	BROTHERLY LOVE	1991
DEXTER	PETE	THE PAPERBOY	1995
FAULKS	SEBASTIAN	BIRDSONG	1993
FITZGERALD	FRANCES	FIRE IN THE LAKE	1972
FRANCIS	DICK	BLOOD SPORT	1967
FRANCIS	DICK	FLYING FINISH	1966
FRANCIS	DICK	ODDS AGAINST	1965	SH1
GEKOSKI	RICK	STAYING UP: A FAN BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE PREMIERSHIP	1998
HALL	JAMES W.	THE MATING REFLEX	1980
HARDEN	BLAINE	ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14	2012
HOROWITZ	ANTHONY	ARK ANGEL	2005	AR6
JAHN	RYAN DAVID	THE DISPATCHER	2011
KAKONIS	TOM	DOUBLE DOWN	1991	TW3
KING	STEPHEN	BAG OF BONES	1998
LANCHESTER	JOHN	CAPITAL	2012
MANGOLD/PENYCATE	TOM/JOHN	THE TUNNELS OF CU CHI	1985
MARK	DAVID	ORIGINAL SKIN	2013	DSAMA2
MARSDEN/SHER	WILLIAM/JULIAN	ANGELS OF DEATH	2006
McDERMID	VAL	THE TORMENT OF OTHERS	2004	TH+CJ4
NEWMAN	ROBERT	DEPENDENCE DAY	1994
PANCAKE	BREECE D.	TRILOBITES & OTHER STORIES	1992
PATTERSON	JAMES	MARY MARY	2005	AC11
RANKIN	IAN	A QUESTION OF BLOOD	2003	JR14
RANKIN	IAN	STRIP JACK	1992	JR4
RANKIN	IAN	THE BLACK BOOK	1993	JR5
RANKIN	IAN	MORTAL CAUSES	1994	JR6
RANKIN	IAN	RESURRECTION MAN	2002	JR13
SCOTT	JUSTIN	STONEDUST	1995	BA2
STARK	OLIVER	88 KILLER	2011	H+L2
TEMPLE	PETER	IN THE EVIL DAY	2002
WIEST	ANDREW	ROLLING THUNDER: IN A GENTLE LAND (ed.)	2006