LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART EIGHTY-THREE

A project that started in October, 2014 with the contents of the first tub recorded, approaches two years in progress with tub 83......

Tub 83

John Gardner, James Patterson, Joe R. Lansdale, Dennis Lehane, Brian Garfield,

John Gardner and Boysie Oakes!

Boysie Oakes is back.

The suave, womanising special agent for British Intelligence returns in his second thrilling adventure.

At the height of the Cold War, Boysie is sent on a routine mission to America.

In San Diego, he will be the official British observer for the test-fire of America's latest nuclear missile: The Trepholite.

But the Soviets have other plans.

A double of Boysie has been sent into the field.

And very soon Boysie is embroiled in a game of bluff and double-bluff involving a holocaustic missile, a slick con man - and Vladimir Solev, an deadly opponent and yet also a man in whom Boysie sees something of himself.

Along the way, Boysie is mixed up with two gorgeous women - the sultry Priscilla Braddock Fairchild and the luscious Chicory Triplehouse.

As he adventures across the United States, Boysie must dodge bullets, deadly predators and jealous women.

And as he arrives in San Diego the clock is ticking and Operation Understrike is under way.

'Understrike' is the second in the series of highly acclaimed spy novels featuring cowardly secret agent, Boysie Oakes. It is perfect for fans of classic British spy fiction, including Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, and Desmond Bagley.

John Gardner, Joseph Hone, John D. MacDonald, Gregg Hurwitz, John Ball,

Joseph Hone - 1971 espionage book

Eric Ambler, John Buchan, Erskine Childers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Len Deighton, Ian Fleming, Frederick Forsyth, Graham Greene, Geoffrey Household, John le Carre, Robert Ludlum and Joseph Hone. What do they have in common? They wrote spy thrillers and all have appeared in a recent survey of the fifty best books in that genre. Although he may be the least known the inclusion of Joseph Hone was not eccentric. The particular title chosen was The Private Sector the first of his Peter Marlow titles. The author and the title are fully deserving of this accolade. The time is May, 1967 in the weeks leading up to the Arab/Israeli six day war. The place is Cairo. The story is Peter Marlow's, an Irish teacher and secret agent sent from London to find his friend and fellow spy, Henry Edwards who has vanished from Cairo. During the course of this fool's errand, he also finds his former wife, Bridget, who is now deeply involved with Edwards both emotionally and professionally. Marlow moves easily British and Egyptian intelligence branches, attaching his allegiance to neither until he becomes the unwitting victim of a failed plot to topple Nasser. Credible and dramatic, this is a story of callous political and human intrigue and of a mission which can only succeed if none of the men return.

John Camp, Gavin Lyall, Lawrence Block, Jimmy Boyle, Andy McNab,

Daniel Silva, Robert Crais, Brian Freemantle, Ian Rankin, John D. MacDonald,

More Charlie Muffin - book 4

Charlie Muffin has been approached to mastermind a 4.5 million dollar protection job for Tsar Nicholas II's priceless stamp collection. Charlie has no way of knowing that the Romanov stamp exhibition has been staged entirely by the FBI to capture Giuseppe Terrilli, a Florida businessman with a passion for stamps. The Tsar's stamp collection debuts in New York as the Terrilli's mob assembles in Florida to organize the theft of the collection. The robbery proves not to be quite so simple once Charlie has arrived.

Barry Maitland, Dave Eggers, Peter Doyle, Peter May, Zane Lovitt,

Australian crime - Peter Doyle and Billy Glasheen

August 1945: the Japanese have surrendered and there's dancing in the streets of Sydney. But Billy Glasheen has little time to celebrate; his black marketeer boss has disappeared, leaving Billy high and dry. Soon he s on the run from the criminals and the cops, not to mention a shady private army. They all think he has the thing they want, and they'll kill to get hold of it. Unfortunately for Billy, he doesn't know what it is . . . but he'd better find it fast. Set in Australia in the years following World War II, Peter Doyle's novels brilliantly explore the criminal underworld, political corruption, and the postwar explosion of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll.

Australian crime again - Zane Lovitt

A brilliant Melbourne crime novel, told in ten hardboiled stories.

Winner, Ned Kelly Awards, Best First Fiction, 2013.

John Dorn is a private investigator. Just like his father used to be. It says 'private inquiry agent' in John's yellow pages ad because that's what his old man called himself, back before his business folded, his wife left him and he drank himself to death.

But John's not going to end up like his father. He doesn't have a wife, or much business. He doesn't really drink, either. Not yet.

In each of these ten delicious stories Zane Lovitt presents an intriguing investigation filled with humour and complex, beautifully observed characters. At their centre is John Dorn, solving not so much crimes as funny human puzzles; but the crimes, and the criminals, are forever lurking nearby, taunting him from the city's cold underworld.

It's his job to unravel the mystery, or right the wrong, or just do what the client has hired him to do. Somehow, though, there is a misstep at every turn, and John takes another small stumble towards his moment of personal truth. His midnight promise. Perhaps even his redemption.

Robert Harris, Jess Walter, Owen Sheers, Anthony Bourdain, Larry Heinemann,

Jess Walter - National Book Award Nominee

What's left of a place when you take the ground away?

Answer: The Zero.

Brian Remy has no idea how he got here. It's been only five days since his city was attacked, and Remy is experiencing gaps in his life--as if he were a stone skipping across water. He has a self-inflicted gunshot wound he doesn't remember inflicting. His son wears a black armband and refuses to acknowledge that Remy is still alive. He seems to be going blind. He has a beautiful new girlfriend whose name he doesn't know. And his old partner in the police department, who may well be the only person crazier than Remy, has just gotten his picture on a box of First Responder cereal.

And these are the good things in Brian Remy's life. While smoke still hangs over the city, Remy is recruited by a mysterious government agency that is assigned to gather all of the paper that was scattered in the attacks. As he slowly begins to realize that he's working for a shadowy operation, Remy stumbles across a dangerous plot, and soon realizes he's got to track down the most elusive target of them all--himself. And the only way to do that is to return to that place where everything started falling apart.

From a young novelist of astounding talent, The Zero is an extraordinary story of searing humor and sublime horror, of blindness, bewilderment, and that achingly familiar feeling that the world has suddenly stopped making sense.

Mark Brandon Read, Sarah Caudwell, Robert Harris, Alex James, Jed Mercurio, 

Jed Mercurio

Like any womaniser, the subject of this novel must go to extraordinary lengths to hide his affairs from his wife and colleagues. But this is no ordinary adulterer - he is John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. Yet he is also a virtuous man ensnared by an uncontrollable vice.

Startlingly empathetic, darkly witty and deft, American Adulterer takes inspiration from the tantalising details surrounding President Kennedy's sex life and medical secrets to weave a provocatively intricate portrait of the man's affairs, illness, courage and idealism - and in JFK's love for his wife, recreates one of history's most fascinatingly enigmatic marriages.

Anthony Bourdain - crime fiction!

All is not well at the Dreadnought Grill - the chef has a smack habit, the owner has been set up by the FBI and in the midst of this, the sous-chef Tommy is just trying to do his job.

Stella Rimington, Robert B. Parker, Ryan David Jahn, Koji Suzuki, Jeremy Poolman,

Barbara Vine, Keith Thomson, John R. Maxim, Mark Poirier, Jonas Jonasson,

Martin H. Greenberg/Bill Pronzini (ed.), Norman Green, Ryan David Jahn, Joe R. Lansdale, Chris Rose,

Joe R. Lansdale - Hap Collins and Leonard Pine

Florida Grange, Leonard Pine's lawyer and Hap Collin's former lover, has disappeared while on a case. Redneck psychopaths, voodoo exhumations, biblical thunderstorms and murder - nothing can deflect Hap and Leonard from their search for her, especially since they've just packed a lunch.

Chris Rose - non-fiction regarding Hurricane Katrina

With a new foreword by the author on the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina Chris Rose s "New York Times" bestselling collection: A gripping book about life s challenges in post-Katrina New Orleans packed with heart, honesty, and wit ("New Republic").

Celebrated as a local classic and heaped with national praise, "1 Dead in Attic" is a brilliant collection of columns by an award-winning "Times-Picayune" journalist chronicling the horrific damage and aftermath wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2006. Frank and compelling...vivid and invaluable ("Booklist"), it is a roller coaster ride through a devastated American wasteland as it groans for rebirth. Full of the emotion, tragedy and even humor which has made Chris Rose a favorite son and the voice of a lost city these are the stories of the dead and the living, of survivors and believers, of destruction and recovery, and of hope and despair.

With photographs by British photojournalist Charlie Varley, "1 Dead in Attic" captures New Orleans caught between an old era and a new, New Orleans in its most desperate time, as it struggled out of floodwaters and willed itself back to life."

Another tub sorted!

HIGHLIGHTS.....Lawrence Block, Norman Green, John Camp, Joe R. Lansdale, Jess Walter and others.

LOWLIGHTS..... nothing really - a decent tub in my opinion.

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR		TITLE	YEAR	SERIES
BALL	JOHN	DEATH FOR A PLAYMATE	1969	VT3
BLOCK	LAWRENCE	EVERYBODY DIES	1998	MS14
BOURDAIN	ANTHONY	BONE IN THE THROAT	1995
BOYLE	JIMMY	A SENSE OF FREEDOM	1977
BRANDON READ	MARK	CHOPPER 3	2007	C3
CAMP	JOHN	THE EMPRESS FILE	1991	K+LE2
CAUDWELL	SARAH	THE SHORTEST WAY TO HADES	1984	HT2
CRAIS	ROBERT	HOSTAGE	2001
DOYLE	PETER	THE DEVIL'S JUMP	2001	BG3
EGGERS	DAVE	A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS	1999
FREEMANTLE	BRIAN	CHARLIE MUFFIN'S UNCLE SAM	1980	CM4
GARDNER	JOHN	UNDERSTRIKE	1965	BO2
GARDNER	JOHN	FOUNDER MEMBER	1969	BO5
GARFIELD	BRIAN	THE ROMANOV SUCCESSION	1974
GREEN	NORMAN	SICK LIKE THAT	2010	AM2
HARRIS	ROBERT	THE FEAR INDEX	2011
HARRIS	ROBERT	ARCHANGEL	1998
HEINEMANN	LARRY	CLOSE QUARTERS	1977
HONE	JOSEPH	THE PRIVATE SECTOR	1971	PM1
HURWITZ	GREGG	WE KNOW	2008
JAHN	RYAN DAVID	THE LAST TOMORROW	2012
JAHN	RYAN DAVID	ACTS OF VIOLENCE	2009
JAMES	ALEX	BIT OF A BLUR	2007
JONASSON	JONAS	THE HUNDRED-YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED	2012
LANSDALE	JOE R.	WRITER OF THE PURPLE RAGE	1994
LANSDALE	JOE R.	THE TWO-BEAR MAMBO	1995	HC+LP3
LEHANE	DENNIS	PRAYERS FOR RAIN	1999	K+G5
LOVITT	ZANE	THE MIDNIGHT PROMISE	2012
LYALL	GAVIN	THE WRONG SIDE OF THE SKY	1961
MACDONALD	JOHN D.	THE DAMNED	1952
MACDONALD	JOHN D.	THE LONG LAVENDER LOOK	1970	TMCG
MAITLAND	BARRY	CRUCIFIXION CREEK	2015	BT1
MAXIM	JOHN R.	BANNERMAN'S LAW	1991	B3
MAY	PETER	RUNAWAY	2015
McNAB	ANDY	BRAVO TWO ZERO	1993
MERCURIO	JED	AMERICAN ADULTERER	2009
PARKER	ROBERT B.	BRIMSTONE	2009	VC+EH3
PATTERSON	JAMES	POP GOES THE WEASEL	1998	AC5
POIRIER	MARK	NAKED PUEBLO	1998
POOLMAN	JEREMY	INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE STATE OF ARIZONA	1996
PRONZINI/GREENBERG	BILL/MARTIN H.	THE GIANT BOOK OF PRIVATE EYE STORIES (ed.)	1997
RANKIN	IAN	HIDE & SEEK	1990	JR2
RIMINGTON	STELLA	DEAD LINE	2008	LC4
ROSE	CHRIS	1 DEAD IN ATTIC	2005
SHEERS	OWEN	I SAW A MAN	2015
SILVA	DANIEL	PRINCE OF FIRE	2005	GA5
SUZUKI	KOJI	DARK WATER	2004
THOMSON	KEITH	ONCE A SPY	2010	DC1
VINE	BARBARA	THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER'S BOY	1998
WALTER	JESS	THE ZERO	2006	C2