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Michael Connellys most famous character, Detective Harry Bosch, has been thrilling readers for a decade. Now available in one omnibus edition are the three books that brought him to life. First introduced in The Black Echo, Bosch hunts the brutal murderer of a Vietnam buddy. Then, in The Black Ice, a narcotics officers disappearance sends Bosch on a trail of murders leading from Hollywood Boulevard to Mexicos dusty back alleys. In The Concrete Blonde, Bosch must hunt down the Dollmaker, a macabre serial killer, before he strikes again. Together, these three novels are the perfect way to discover, or rediscover, one of our most fascinating and well-loved sleuths. A Darkness More Than Night, also featuring Harry Bosch, is a New York Times bestseller and a national bestseller. Connellys sales continue to rise. Since its January 2001 publication, A Darkness More Than Night has shipped more than 235,000 copies. The Black Echo won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Connelly has also won a Nero Wolfe prize, a Macavity Award, and an Anthony Award.
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Wonderful writer.......2007-05-14
Michael Connelly is an incredible mystery writer. The plots are well-done, the characters believable. I would highly recommend any of the Harry Bosch mystery novels.
Great stories.......2007-05-12
Another hit by Michael Connelly. I love his Harry Bosch books, the depth of character, attention to detail and beautifully tailored plots make for a completely enjoyable read. This one is great because you get three complete Bosch books for the price of one. Of course, if you like to lie in bed and read the 3 in 1 format makes it really heavy to hold up, but it's worth the effort.
I'm a writer myself so I know how hard it is to turn out such consistently great tales. If you'd like to check out my book click on The Towers Of Greed and if you buy it please buy it from seller Whitebear54 since that's me, the author.
Connelly.......2007-02-12
As a Connelly addict I have to say this is the place to begin...the beginning. One read and you too will be hooked.
Gift.......2007-01-12
I have no idea what this book is like, I ordered it for my niece for Christmas, he is her favorite author :)
Amazon is a class act.......2007-01-04
We have purchased hundreds of products from Amazon, any questions or problems, have always been handled in a very prompt and professional manner. I can't imagine shopping without Amazon. Grandparents from Seattle
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The Black Ice (Harry Bosch)
Michael Connelly
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The corpse in the hotel room appears to be that of a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumours abound that he had crossed - selling a new drug called Black Ice from Mexico - and the LAPD brass are quick to declare his death aside.But Harry Bosch isn't so sure; prompted by odd, inexplicable details from the crime scene, and attraction to the widow, he begins his own investigation. An investigation that takes him over the border to Mexico and into a dangerous labyrinth of shifting identities and deadly corruption.
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This is NOT about cross-border shopping!.......2007-09-25
Calexico Moore, a depressed NYPD detective who is treading on the illegal dark fringes of the drug culture he's investigating, eats both barrels of his own shotgun in a dreary motel room only days before Christmas. With Moore gone and another officer about to be placed on permanent disability leave because of alcohol abuse, the homicide unit is clearly under-staffed and overwhelmed with an outstanding case load. Lieutenant Harvey "98" Pounds, in a callous bureaucratic gesture, pleads with Harry Bosch to pull some overtime and begs him to clear just one case before New Year's - that will put the unit's clearance ratio over 50%, a marginally acceptable level in the eyes of the public and the police brass! Bosch digs in and quickly determines that not only are two of the outstanding murders related but the confusing road he must travel to solve them enters the high stakes world of designer drug smuggling and also crosses paths with the tortuous trail that led Calexico Moore to the motel room in which he took his own life.
Most readers will agree that the Harry Bosch series is within the "police procedural" genre. But the ending twist and resolution to these complex murders rivals the endings of the finest thrillers on bookstore shelves today.
As a character piece, "The Black Ice" firmly entrenches Harry Bosch as a very complex man to fathom with depths that are almost impossible to plumb - compassionate at times and yet outrageously brutal and callous at others; openly contemptuous of the rules of the police bureaucracy and yet rigid in the establishment of his own personal code of conduct and integrity; often shallow in his relationship with women and yet clearly longing for the depth of a meaningful relationship based in true love and compatibility; he is also an obvious "user", entirely willing to use a personal relationship for the achievement of his own short-term goals. In short, he is entirely human and not entirely likeable - but as a complex protagonist in a thrilling police procedural that you will be cheering for - well ... Connelly has simply hit the nail right on the head!
Because of an underlying thread of multi-layer character development, references to past events and the slow but sure revelation of Bosch's history, "The Black Ice" is best served as the second entrée in a multi-course meal which begins with the first Bosch novel, "The Black Echo", followed by "The Concrete Blonde". Ten further courses are available for your gustatory delight! Enjoy.
Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
A Thrilling Mystery.......2007-09-11
This is the second novel of the Harry Bosch series and I enjoyed this book more than Black Echo, the first novel of the series. In Black Ice, there is a new drug on the streets and the plot unfolds giving the reader an insight into the vicious drug dealing world that generates crooked cops, with lots of twists and turns. There are numerous subplots in the story, and about the midway point I was a bit confused, but the author ensured that I didn't stay lost and it all worked out in the end. If you enjoy a great mystery, coupled with a thrilling tale then check this book out or any of the books in the series.
A Real Page Turner.......2007-07-13
This is the 2nd book in the Harry Bosch Series. I would recommend reading all the Harry Bosch novels in the proper order. Most all of these books are either rated 4 or 5 stars by me. I have been very pleased with the way Michael Connelly writes. He leaves nothing out and as usual Harry Bosch is a real fascinating character. You will not be disappointed if you like police investigative mysteries.
Black Ice leaves one cold.......2007-07-10
Another one of Connolly's books where all the answers are given in the last couple of chapters. I want to have insight into the characters and plot as I move along. I have read most all of the Harry Bosch series and there are a few that feel like, "whew, I need to end this book somehow."
In this book he has killed the husband of the cop's wife, has a continuing relationship with her, living the lie. Nice going Harry.
Connolly is a good writer, he sometimes doesn't know how to get off the stage. The Last Coyote and Angel's Flight are well done and worth reading.
THE BLACK ICE BY MICHAEL CONNELLY.......2007-06-11
Another Harry Bosch novel that keeps you guessing and on the edge. Set in Los Angeles, this was the usual Harry Bosch, I couldn't stop listening until I knew who did it.
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Black Ice (MIRA)
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The job was a
killer.
Living paycheck to paycheck in Paris, American book translator Chloe Underwood would give anything for some excitement and passion -- even a little danger. So when she's offered a lucrative weekend gig translating at a business conference in a remote chateau, she jumps at the chance to shake things up.
Then by chance Chloe discovers her employers are anything but the entrepreneurs they appear, and suddenly she knows far too much. Her clients are illegal arms dealers, and one of them is ordered to kill her. But instead, Bastien Toussaint drags Chloe away, and the next thing she knows she's on the run with the most terrifying and seductive man she's ever met. What were his motives -- and would she live long enough to find out?
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A good, fast paced read!.......2007-09-30
This is the second book of Ann Stuart's ICE series that I have read. It was a fun, fast paced and pretty entertaining. Here you have the typical bad boy who does not care for anything or anyone but for completing his mission and the lead lady who will disrupt all his plans and eventually make him seem more human...I thought that the end was just to abrupt, which lead to disappointment....I just think the author should have put more effort and given us a more detailed ending.
Hot read.......2007-08-30
I love Stuart's plots of women in the wrong place at the wrong time with dark, long-haired dangerous men. The interactions between the main characters are hot. I'm currently reading Cold as Ice and loving it. I first read Ice Blue and couldn't believe where the book was taking me.
Hope others enjoy them as much as I did. I also hope Ms. Stuart continues to give us more "Ice" books, courtesy of the Committee.
Amazing Series.......2007-08-09
Anne Stuart is amazing. I believe this is the first of the Ice series and I literally could not put it down until I was done. Great supsense, plot twists and of course, romance!
For fans of Linda Howard and Suzanne Brockmann........2007-08-08
Toss any preconceptions of a romantic hero right out the window. Right now. Done? Now imagine Bastien: cold as ice, enigmatic, complex, lethally dangerous, not entirely sure if he's good or bad. World-weary, not frightened to die but not willing to be slaughtered. An intelligent survivor with assassin instincts. A uber alpha male! Multi-lingual book translator Chloe Underwood accidentally blunders into a scene of arms dealing. She thinks she's been engaged to translate for a group of international importers who deal mainly with groceries. She's terrified when she realizes she's dealing with weapons, and tries to escape the tight security of the remote French chateau where the `importers' are meeting. That is the start of her nightmare, worst-case scenario. Sex, blood, violence, grisly death, torture, the balance of power swaying back and forth - who knows where this book will end. You can't possibly tell when you begin to read it! As for Bastien - how can Chloe figure out if he's the good guy when he can't or won't allay any of her fears? This book will push the boundaries of romance waaaay back. It reads like a very very very dark Alias, on speed. Not for the faint-hearted!
Four women and a man........2007-07-23
I don't understand the heroine, Chloe. She gets tortured by a sadist with a hot knife and all she worries about is that the so-called friend who sent her into such a dangerous situation will be angry when she returns her ruined designer clothes. In fact. Until the aforementioned friend, her room-mate Sylvia, was horribly murdered I was half-inclined to think she was one of the bad people in the plot.
One of the interesting things about this novel is that quite a few women get killed. But not in that slash-and-kill sexual way but in a 'bad people die' sort of manner. Another quirk is that it is the hero who is the object of sexual desire for most of the women featured in the story.
This novel is much better than a 'romantic suspense' genre. It is actually a good thriller with a hefty helping of sex and romance between the main couple. And a high body count. Plus quite a bit of emotional and physical pain.
Just for a change I thought the bad people were all totally plausible.
Obviously Black Ice is not as mesmerising as Cold As Ice. The heroine spends too much of the novel sleeping or drugged. And the relationship between the main couple has almost no quiet moments where they can just enjoy or discover each other's personality. However Chloe and Bastian do get around to declaring their love for each other...something that was missing from Cold As Ice.
It's still a better than average romance read though.
I like Anne Stuart's couples. Despite the fact that they are all privately educated, tend to come from old money and are better-than-average in the looks department...men and women. That's preferable to the romance trend (no doubt started by the success of Jane Eyre) where handsome heroes get involved with dogs. Just because most people work for a living does not mean that they are ugly.
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The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.
By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. Cleaver writes in
Soul on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man.
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Lost for words.......2007-09-27
After reading this book I believe trying to articulate in writing "what my opinion" is would be doing it an injustice. The man is brilliant and has influenced me to search for more knowledge and wisdom. Thanks Mr. Cleaver!
Sad, Revolutionary, and Incindiary at the same time,.......2007-09-10
Mr. Cleaver wrote a semiautobiography about how society sets itself up along racial and gender lines. Raping women is reprehensible and evil and it doesn't help solve the racial/gender problem. It excabates it. Challenging the racist/sexist society by making alliances with people whom he considered to be his enemies will solve most of the problem. He should have shown love for his fellow man/woman. Didn't Jesus tell people to love your enemies, not hating and violating them? Later on in life, his views have changed for the better.
He right, even now. .......2007-06-02
The themes exhibited in "Soul On Ice" are race, racism, individuality vs. societal standards and traditions, injustice, humanity, religion/faith, inhumanity and activism. Cleaver spends a great deal of time writing on the injustices Black people face in America, and how even though he is what society wants him to be, it is his fault that he allow society to be right. He pledges to take steps towards change and to become a benefit to society.
I know that a lot of people think that they know about the civil rights movement and the effects it had on the Black race, but they don't. This story of a man who, at the time, had been locked up for more than half of his life, is the story of all real Black people. I think that sometimes Black people do things and think that it is their nature, which is how stereotypes brew. Cleaver shows us that it is history and hatred that have made us a collective in an usual individual world. We do think for ourselves, yet a racist society continues to force us to travel down a road that we have not set for ourselves, and that he has fell into racist America's trap. He has become the stereotype: (supposedly) uneducated, a prisoner, and a victim of "The Ogre" (the white woman).
One of the best books i've ever read...........2007-03-09
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the most loquacious orators of modern times...painting ghetto vignettes with skillfull mastery....he was one of the most brilliant revolutionary minds of the 20th century...please, do yourself a favor and read this book!
decent writer, bad man..........2007-01-11
people consider this to be 'in the world of literature' and serious?
cleaver's a misogynistic pig, a racist, and a multiple rapist. that's all you need to know.
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The Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes was formed in 1895 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Comprised of the sons and grandsons of runaway American slaves, the league helped pioneer the sport of ice hockey, changing this winter game from the primitive "gentleman's past-time" of the nineteenth century to the modern fast moving game of today. In an era when many believed blacks could not endure cold, possessed ankles too weak to effectively skate, and lacked the intelligence for organized sport, these men defied the established myths.
The Colored League was one of the most complex sports organizations ever created and was led by Baptist ministers and church laymen. Natural leaders and proponents of black pride, these men represented a concept in sports never before seen. Their rule book was The Bible. Their game book, the coded words and oral history derived from the experiences of American slavery and the Underground Railroad. Their strategy, the principles and teachings of American black leader Booker T. Washington (the founder of the Tuskegee Institute) and a believer in the concept of racial equality through racial separation.
Twenty-five years before the Negro Baseball Leagues in the United States, and twenty-two years before the birth of the National Hockey league, the Colored League would emerge as a premier force in Canadian hockey and supply the resilience necessary to preserve a unique culture which exists to this day. Unfortunately their contributions were conveniently ignored, or simply stolen, as white teams and hockey officials, influenced by the black league, copied elements of the black style or sought to take self-credit for black hockey innovations.
Seven years of research has gone into this book. This is the first book ever written on the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes.
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Great Story, but this book has so much more.......2007-04-23
Being a diehard hockey fan and history teacher, I bought this book wanting to learn more of the history of the game, but the historical perspective of the establishment of blacks in Canada and the development of their communities is a great addition that I did not foresee.
If you are looking for chronicals of the games and league alone, this book is not for you. Only a few chapters are dedicated to these accounts. But, if you can appreciate historical ideas that may challenge your previous assumptions during this era, I would highly recommend, Black Ice.
where can i find this book>??.......2007-04-01
i saw the story about this book that was shown on espn. As a student who is pursuing a masters in history and a loyal hockey fan, this book would have been a very interesting/enjoyable read for me. I am disappointed though that I cannot find this book anywhere. what gives amazon? I figured with the promotion of this book seen on espn this book would be readily available. thats not the case. i still hope to someday read this book as the authors have put vast amounts of time and effort in the rearching of this topic to write a great book of history.
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They said she came in with the ice…
Lenore Featherjohn found the girl, frozen against a snow bank behind Lenore’s bed-and-breakfast. Some said she was a ghost, others said an angel.
Lenore knows better. Fearing that the police might look to her sons as murderers, she hires Jake Rikker and his crusty business partner, May, to investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding her undesirable discovery. Their search leads them not to the strange girl–or to Earth’s final days, as many in the town suspect–but to Amy McLaren, the wife of a local minister. As Jake and May get closer to the truth, the tension between Lenore and Amy rises, forcing each woman to face the secrets they’ve hidden far too long.
Return to Fog Point in Black Ice, a gripping novel that asks, is any faith strong enough to survive the coldest seasons of life?
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Best mystery this year.......2007-07-21
The most compelling book I have read this year. I don't have a lot of time to read, but I made time for this book because it was so good. Linda Hall not only creates a mystery that holds my attention but she has complex characters with clear motive for their actions. The character of Lenore Featherjohn is both poignant and repulsive.Hall does not present the usual cardboard perfect Christians either. Her portrayal is much more realistic and honest. In addition, the details in the setting of Fog Point make it feel like it's a place I could drive up and see. I can't wait to read another Linda Hall book.
Another good mystery by Linda Hall.......2007-07-14
Winter comes to Fog Point, and for the first time in forty-five years ice has moved into the harbor. It snows every day, and as if that isn't bad enough, Lenore Featherjohn finds the body of a young woman back of her bed and breakfast. Lenore has two sons, who are a long way from being saints, and she doesn't want anyone suspecting them. She tells one little lie, just trying to protect her family, and it mushrooms until she is piling lie upon lie, with no end in sight.
Amy McLaren, minister's wife and a mother, knows something is wrong with her family, but she doesn't know what to do. And she's not sure she believes in God anymore, a disaster for a pastor's wife. Her husband is keeping secrets from her and her daughter is rebelling. Something is seriously wrong in Fog Point, and Jake Rikker and May Williams, private investigators, are on a hunt for a murderer before anyone else gets killed.
Black Ice is a tangled story with too many people who have too much to hide. Fans of Linda Hall's Fog Point series will welcome this one.
A New Favorite Author...........2007-07-11
I don't know how I've managed to miss Christy nominated, best-selling author, Linda Hall.
I will be rectifying this.
Black Ice wrapped around me and pulled me in, holding my attention until the very satisfying conclusion. Beautiful, haunting descriptions. Multi-dimensional and realistic characters. Page-turning, haunting plot.
The Christianity elements resemble the Christians I know, chipped, cracked and broken in progress and process.
Well done and recommended.
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A Suspenseful Must Read.......2007-06-16
Linda Hall has done it again--provided her faithful readers with a novel rich in descriptions, filled with real and unique characters, and a mystery that keeps you turning the pages. Black Ice, the second book in the Fog Point Series brings back Fog Point's quirky cast of characters that we all came to care about in Dark Water.
Black Ice opens with Fog Points' local busybody Lenore Featherjohn's discovery of a young girl frozen outside her bed and breakfast entrance. Fearing her sons involvement in the murder of this unknown girl, Lenore moves the body, and positions the girl's hands together as if in prayer. Lenore's decision to alter the body's location and position the hands fuels the local gossip and draws media attention, as they ask, are the folded hands a sign that she is an angel? Does she have mysterious healing powers? Who is she? Who killed her and why?
Thus begins a mystery that involves a cast of thoroughly developed Fog Point characters that includes the resident minister, his wife, and his adopted daughter, along with the local PI team of Jake Rikker and May Williams. But Hall doesn't stop with the locals, as she delves into the girl's past and through varied points of view she brings us characters who unravel the far reaching mystery.
A fan of Linda Hall's writing for years, it wasn't difficult for me to thoroughly enjoy Black Ice. I am drawn to Hall's work because of her rich characters and her ability to engage them in fast moving yet intricate plots. Black Ice is no exception. Hall breaks the stereotype of a minister's wife with Amy who battles her burgeoning unbelief and gives us a glimpse into the real life of a minister's wife. Hall takes Lenore Featherjohn, a woman who would fall under the `extra grace required' category, and shows us what God sees in her, reminds us that no one is unimportant to God. All in all, Hall provides us with real people faced with real problems who happen to be caught up in a mystery that needs solving.
Though you don't need to read Dark Water to understand Black Ice, you might want to pick up Dark Water first so you can enjoy the books in the order Hall has released them. Either way, you won't be disappointed.
Suspenseful read.......2007-06-06
Linda Hall does it again in the latest installment of the Fog Point Series. When Lenore Featherjohn finds a girl frozen in a snowbank, it seems long-hidden secrets are about to see the light of day, leading to dangerous and wide-reaching consequences. Crisp, intense, filled with suspense and intriguing characters, BLACK ICE is a read you won't want to miss.
Marta Perry
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The first book to define the clear and present danger posed by a cyber-terrorist attack on the U.S. computer- and network-dependent infrastructure. The pages are packed with interviews from members of terrorist groups, including al-Qaida, as well as key insiders involved in planning and executing the U.S. plan for the defense of cyberspace, including Tom Ridge, James Gilmore, CIA and NSA officials--and even al-Qaeda supporters. Internet security expert Dan Verton investigates how cyber-terrorism could occur, what the global and financial implications are, the impact this is having and will continue to have on privacy and civil liberties, and how to prepare and prevent against cyber-terrorism.
Customer Reviews:
A Wake up call to all Americans.......2006-03-18
Before 9-11 This Book might not be looked at the same way it is today. Black Ice :The Invisible Threat of Cyber Terrororism brings around many misconceptions why an attack on our most important infrastructure could be carried out by Terrorists and not an Impossibilty. While This Book deals mostly with What if Scenerios, It also makes you think of things you thought were impossible. Take for example the sophistication of Hacking and Breaking into Our most Vital Systems. Terrorists know you must have training at a very high level and will Train Them at Schools in the U.S. Itself. Sound Familiar?
That's the sought of future thinking that this book will have you turning page after page and many ways o limit or stop a future attack on the internet. A great book with insightful information.
It is not about the author.......2005-09-05
I have read this book and the reviews on Amazon.com. The author makes a good argument for enhanced cyber security in the USA. This is an issue that will be ignored by policy makers and the general public until an attack makes people pay attention to the realities of a computer controlled civilization. While other reviewers blast the writing style and hypothetical situations in the book it seems they have missed the point. It is not if a devastating cyber attack will occur, it is when.
Insightful Look at the State of Infrastructure Security.......2005-02-06
Dan Verton, journalist and author of The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers, has written a very enlightening book in Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism.
The book begins with a fictitious attack that is multi-faceted and very well orchestrated. While it is somewhat sensationalist or alarmist, the point of the story is to show what is possible- not probable. Verton illustrates how cyber-attacks against key communications and critical infrastructure sites can be used in conjunction with conventional attacks to maximize the ensuing damage and confusion.
After capturing your attention with the story of what could be, Verton goes on to describe various government and private sector studies and disaster-preparedness exercises that have proven time and time again what a fragile state the infrastructure is in and how the domino effect of one area can cascade to take out entire regions.
One of the main points of the book is to show how the critical infrastructure is inter-dependent. If a main gas pipeline is destroyed, electrical power plants lose their source of energy. Once the electricity is shut down the telephone, cell phone, Internet and many other industries will shut down. Water treatment facilities will not be able to function. The list goes on and on.
This is an enlightening book that everyone should read. It is important for the powers that be to understand this domino effect and take steps to protect against cyber-terrorism of this sort.
(...)
Page Turner That Kept Me Reading.......2004-05-05
This guy is among the best tech journalists out there and this book is proof. Nobody has documented the cyber-terrorist threat like this. And from the negative comments I've seen here on Amazon it is clear that those people didn't read the book or care to acknowledge the compelling nature of the argument.
If you're blind to the future, you won't be interested in reading this book or giving it any credit, and that's probably par for the course for you.
But if you are an independent thinker who understands the nature of the terrorist threat, you will want to read this book and you will undoubtedly benefit and learn something from it.
Terrific, high-quality investigative journalism.......2004-05-05
Without a doubt a book of monumental importance to the nation during this time of war and increased threat from terrorism. I recommend this book to anybody who is interested in homeland security and how terrorism may be changing and evolving its strategy against the U.S.
Well-written, full of intrigue and first-hand interviews with top security officials from both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Verton had unfettered access to those directly involved in the Sept. 11 response, including Richard Clarke.
You will not find another book on this subject that is this well researched and written. And because Verton is a journalist, he wrote this book so that you don't have to be a computer expert to understand the issues.
Buy this book. You will not be disappointed.
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A Cavern of Black Ice opens J.V. Jones's Sword of Shadows trilogy. (Her first novel was The Baker's Boy.) The story is set in a land divided among small warring clans of hunters and more sophisticated southern cities whose lords covet the clan territories.
Young clansman Raif has a touch of "old blood" magic that guides his arrows to the heart. Bad times come when a hunting party that includes his father and clan chief is wiped out by a supernaturally aided attack, and Raif's open suspicion of the brutal new leader eventually drives him into exile. Meanwhile, Iss, overlord of Spire Vanis city, keeps a chained-up sorcerer whose powers he channels by revolting means, and has unexplained but shuddersome plans for his "foster daughter" Ash--herself an unwilling focus of dread forces. Raif and Ash find themselves fleeing together through wintry, hostile clanlands, pursued by Iss's vilest henchmen, seeking the dubious goal of the Cavern of Black Ice.
What lifts this tale far above routine quest fantasy is Jones's deft characterization, relentless intensity, and unsparing depiction of pain and slow-healing injury. She has a flair for memorably horrid images. Here a sorcerer gloats over one of his nastier tricks: "A man could not fight when his corneas were snapped from his eyes like badges from a chest."
This hefty volume is over 800 pages long, but the narrative grips hard once it's gained momentum, and the pages turn increasingly fast. Strong meat. Next comes book two, A Fortress of Grey Ice. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk
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HIGH ADVENTURE ON THE SWORD EDGE OF DESTINYAs a newborn Ash March was abandoned--left for dead at the foot of a frozen mountain. Found and raised by the Penthero Iss, the mighty Surlord of Spire Vanis, she has always known she is different. Terrible dreams plague her and sometimes in the darkness she hears dread voices from another world. Iss watches her as she grows to womanhood, eager to discover what powers his ward might possess. As his interest quickens, he sends his living blade, Marafice Eye, to guard her night and day.Raif Sevrance, a young man of Clan Blackhail, also knows he is different, with uncanny abilities that distance him from the clan. But when he and his brother survive an ambush that plunges the entire Northern Territories into war, he yet seeks justice for his own . . . even if means he must forsake clan and kin.Ash and Raif must learn to master their powers and accept their joint fate if they are to defeat an ancient prophecy and prevent the release of the pure evil known as the End Lords.
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It is said in the Known Lands that when one prophecy dies in its fulfilling, somewhere another moves into place. When Jack, the baker's boy, successfully fulfills the prophecy that centered around his birth, a new prophecy arises to the north, where lie other lands, harsher places, populated by people just as intriguing and complex as those we met in the Book of Words trilogy. Two young residents of the northern territories--Raif Sevrance, member of the Clan Blackhail, and Ash March, a girl who is suddenly overtaken by powerful dreams--find themselves first drawn together, then swept up in a series of events that will bring their peoples into a vast war. Dark magic, great bravery, treachery, danger and heroism join in a three-book series that brings to a new level the writing talents of J. V. Jones.
Customer Reviews:
great characters, lackluster storyline.......2007-09-13
Jones creates a great fantasy world, but falls short in her storyline. What great characters she produces, she brings them down to the typical evil is coming, must fight it. As well, although the novel is a trilogy, there is little to no lead in into the next novel. Decent read,but not the best.
extremely slow and overly descriptive.......2007-04-24
I am amazed at the numerous positive reviews. I can only conclude a lot of people like excessive descriptions and a slow pace. Compared to other fantasy book the one has the pace of a halfstarved, half dead, handicaped turtle. Jones uses 300 pages before we find out what the plot is. During those boring 300 pages very litte happens. Someone in here wrote that Jones must have family members come on and rate her book. I would say that needs consideration.
Author of mixed brilliance.......2007-02-15
J.V. Jones's Cavern of Black Ice is an unusual book even in the field of fantasy. She's an adept world builder and her words easily bring to my mind the frosty winter hunting grounds of Clan Blackhail and the sprawling decaying expanses of Spire Vanis. The story Ms. Jones has started is very original and epic on the same scale as Wheel of Time or a Song of Ice and Fire. Her characters are well written, they have distincts personalities, and she writes each chapter from a dfferent point of veiw, incoporating that person's motivation and logic (much like George R.R. Martin).
My biggest problem with her writing is that she puts too much information and detail into her work. It's obvious she a broad knowledge of how things work and are arranged in her world. This book is very well researched and it shows, but her obsessive effort at storycraft made parts of this books almost unreadable. There were times when I wished I could have screamed, "GET TO THE ACTION," at her. I have a short attention which doesn't help any since this book is a read which requires your FULL ATTENTION. The violence is pretty graphic and may be troublesome to other readers.
Over all, this book is very stimulating even if it requires nothing less than your complete attention. Pros outweigh the cons here.
If I could give it 6 stars I would.......2005-11-25
I must totally disagree with a previous reviewer by saying that the "constant" references to how cold her world is was one of her greatest strengths. A break from the mideaval world with a touch of magic thrown in was in order! I have never experienced a world like hers and (shiver) it was truly a memorable experience. A cavern of Black Ice is absolutely brutal. Know that before you buy. There are images painted in her world that I will never forget. Its dark fantasy at its best and all driven by her artic world. George RR Martin has a cold world but it never really touched me and it didn't affect the characters or the world he created. JV's cold is....not conducive to life. The characters fight daily to survive the weather. The things they ate routinely...and the conditions they lived in were simply horrifying. I found myself shivering under my blankets and sweating at the same time. I was so wrapped up in this saga I thought I was cold too. I regret now how many books I have given 5's and wish I could downgrade them to fours to show the difference between them and this novel. As I said in my title it really deserves a six. It is truly original and unforgettable. If dark fantasy is your drug of choice as it is mine then purchase this novel, brew a cup of good java, gather your comfiest blanket and prepare to be very, very cold.
Black and cold search for evil.......2005-11-09
A romance and fantasy at the same time. We are transported into an imaginery world in which you have old primitive germanic-like clans, city kingdoms organized on a feudal tyranical pattern, a world beyond normal human conditions in which the human beings living there possess special powers that have to do with witchcraft as well as with the control and domination of supernatural forces living behind, beneath and inside all things and people, then a dark world of the damned and two beings who can bring the wall that contains them down. The whole novel is well written and perfectly constructed avoiding the moments when things would become too slow, too long, repetitive, hence using the ellipse as a plot-pattern. That makes it a page-turner, even a chapter-turner. And this first volume comes to the end of all the situations presented and to the conclusion of the fate of practically all the people met along the way, except of course the main hero Raif, the main heroin Asarhia (she has the power to free the damned onto the world), the members of Raif's family, the main leaders of the clans, the leaders of the main cities, the Sull (this supernatural human species), and the newly born Baralis who liberates the dark forces that Asarhia had tried to destroy. What happens then will be in the next volume. One remark though. The author speaks too much of different « races » of human beings. They cannot be races, only particular subspecies of the general human species. This is a little bit irritating, and politically incorrect, when the word race is hammered into our minds too often. A last note : if you don't like the cold, don't enter that world. It is a world of ice, snow and extreme antarctic winter.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Université Parus Dauphine, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne
Book Description
Covers popular winter routes from Bear River Mountain to the Wasach Range.
Customer Reviews:
Ice for all.......2004-10-29
I find the book to be compeling even to the beginners. Not only for ice climbers, but hikers during the summer to go to these places and enjoy the beauty and the overwhelming intrige for winter's ice to crystalize.
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The Black Echo:
For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch - hero, maverick, nighthawk - the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal.
The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell. Now, Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city to the torturous link that must be uncovered, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.
The Black Ice:
Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with his head in several pieces and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket.
Years ago, Harry Bosch learned the first rule of the good cop: don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Now, Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with one dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that winds from Hollywood Boulevard's drug bazaar to the dusty back alleys south of the border and into the center of a complex and lethal game - one in which Harry is the next and likeliest victim.
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