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Author: Speesh

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Union soldiers in blue uniforms charging Confederate soldiers behind stone walls with flags and gunfire during Civil War battle

Review: The True Soldier – Paul Fraser Collard

Posted on 07/09/2026 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Historical Fiction, U.S. Civil War

Brief and to the point

Tagged Headline Books, Jack Lark, Paul Fraser Collard, The True Soldier, U.S. Civil WarLeave a comment

Review: The Treadstone Rendition – Joshua Hood

Posted on 06/09/2026 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Robert Ludlum, Thriller

Relentless. And enjoyable

Tagged Head Of Zeus, Joshua Hood, Penguin Random House, Robert Ludlum, The Treadstone Rendition, TreadstoneLeave a comment

Review: All You Need Is Kill – Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Posted on 06/09/2026 by Speesh in Fiction, Science Fiction

Live. Die. Repeat.

Tagged All You Need Is Kill, Edge Of Tomorrow, Hiroshi SakurazakaLeave a comment

Review: The Bear And The Dragon – Tom Clancy

Posted on 06/09/2026 by Speesh in Fiction, Thriller

A whole new level of enjoyable nonsense

Tagged China, Jack Ryan, KGB, Penguin Books, Russia, Tom ClancyLeave a comment

Review: Waking Gods – Sylvain Neuvel

Posted on 06/09/2026 by Speesh in Fiction, Science Fiction

Closer to Star Trek than the oft-mentioned Star Wars

Tagged Del Rey, Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House, Star Trek, Sylvain Neuvel, The Themis Files, Waking GodsLeave a comment
Pedestrians walking along busy riverside street with Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral in background

Review: Icon – Frederick Forsyth

Posted on 05/09/202605/09/2026 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Russia, Spy, Spy Fiction, The Cold War, The Soviet Union, Thriller

It was the best of times it was the worst of times

Tagged Bantam Press, Frederick Forsyth, Icon, The Day Of The Jackal, Transworld PublishersLeave a comment

Review: Alexander – The Definitive Life by his original biographers

Posted on 04/09/2026 by Speesh in Alexander The Great, History, Non Fiction

The most successful conqueror the world has ever seen

Tagged Alexander - The Definitive Life By His Original Biographers, Alexander The Great, Michael Wood, Penguin BooksLeave a comment

Review: The Sentinel – Lee Child And Andrew Child

Posted on 04/09/2026 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Thriller

Sleepy no-name town - check. No Police worth the mention - check. Reacher can do whatever he likes without intervention - check.

Tagged Andrew Child, Books, Jack Reacher, Lee Child, tech, TransworldLeave a comment

Review: Stahlgewitter at the Gates of Moscow – Friedrich von Gatow

Posted on 04/09/2026 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, Soviet Union, The Eastern Front

Waffen SS in combat, a German view of Operation Barbarossa 1941 and the attack on Moscow

Tagged Friedrich Von Gatow, Moscow, Operation Barbarossa, Stahlgewitter At The Gates Of Moscow, The Eastern Front, Waffen SS, World War IILeave a comment

Review: Capture Or Kill – Vince Flynn, Don Bentley

Posted on 04/09/202604/09/2026 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Terrorism

An excellent continuation of the long-running character

Tagged art, Bin Laden, Books, Capture Or Kill, Don Bentley, Israel, middle-east, Mitch Rapp, photography, Simon & Schuster, The Middle East, Vince FlynnLeave a comment

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