The Last Templar (15)

The Last Templar
Raymond Khoury

This book starts in modern day NYC with a dramatic robbery of the Met museum and the archeologist and cop that are trying to figure out the what and why. What they find is a trail that leads them to a myth of the Templars 700 years before. The story also flashes back to the people in the 1300's that lead to the current mystery, but you do not get a feel for what the secret is that they are trying to discover.
The book gets a little dramatic at points, but over all it is a good story that is very readable, holds your interest and moves right along.

Quiver (14)

Quiver
Peter Leonard

Elmore Leonard is my favorite author, Peter is his son, and this is his first book. His second is now out and a third is written and will be coming out later. An excellent story set in Detroit and Northern Michigan, written very much in the style of Elmore. Great characters and an interesting narrative as you follow along characters on each side of the problem to see what they will do next.

I look forward to many more books by Peter Leonard.

The Great Train Robbery (13)

The Great Train Robbery
Michael Crichton
Read 4/26/09

I like Crichton's books, although sometimes they are heavy on confrontation. This book was a nice exception to this. Story set in the 1800's gives an interesting glimpse into what life was like back then, how people lived and were exploited by the system as well as each other.
The story is of a man intricately planning to rob a gold shipment from a train and is told as a narrative so there is lots of foreshadowing, over all a great story but I think it is the backdrop that really made this enjoyable for me.