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“And there went out another horseman that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take piece from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given to him a great sword.”   Revelations 6:4 When Clive Cussler said, “ Nobody does it better than Stephen Coonts ”, he meant it, and The Red Horseman substantiates this claim. The fifth installment of the Jake Grafton series, the novel pits our hero in a race against time to retrieve stolen nuclear arsenal. However, it becomes complicated when rogue agents in his own government are hell-bent on making sure he fails. Throw in a couple of greedy Russian generals and a cruel, sadistic dictator and you’ve got a storyline that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Personally, I had some difficulty grasping the story toward the ending especially his description of dog fights and aviation terminology including the names of fighter planes. Thankfully, it was a brief part of the chapter or el...

Robert Ludlum is undoubtedly one of the world's best storytellers to hit paperback, and The Matarese Countdown is a highly explosive thriller involving a worldwide conspiracy by an ancient evil that has penetrated the bowels of the free world – The Matarese. The Matarese; an ancient organization hell-bent on controlling the economies of the world, first encountered in Ludlum’s The Matarese Circle , is up to something sinisterly big – but what? Enter our protagonist, 36 year old CIA case officer, Cameron Pryce; an agent with a valuable mind that predicted the fall of the Soviet Union within months of its collapse. However, he has to enlist the help of the legendary and elusive Beowulf Agate aka Brandon Scofield – the only man alive ever to penetrate the highly secretive Matarese circle. Pryce and Scofield are like mirror images of each other on different timelines, Pryce the younger and Scofield the older. The characters are so much alike that it feels like Ludlum is clear...