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Category: Action & Adventure

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Review: The Year Of The Locust – Terry Hayes

Posted on 30/08/2026 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Spy Fiction, Terrorism, Thriller

Another film in the waiting

Tagged Bantam Books, I Am Pilgrim, Penguin Random House, Terry Hayes, The Year Of The Locust, TransworldLeave a comment
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Review: Keane’s Charge – Iain Gale

Posted on 22/08/2026 by Speesh in 19th Century Europe, Action & Adventure, Fiction, Historical Fiction, The Peninsular War

As mustard

Tagged Captain James Keane, Heron Books, Iain Gale, Keane's ChargeLeave a comment

Review: Code Red – Kyle Mills / Vince Flynn

Posted on 20/11/2024 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Terrorism, Thriller

End of an era

Tagged Code Red, Kyle Mills, Mitch Rapp, Simon & Schuster, Vince FlynnLeave a comment

Review: The Bourne Defiance – Brian Freeman

Posted on 10/04/2024 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Robert Ludlum, Terrorism, Thriller

The End

Tagged G.P. Putnam's Sons, Jason Bourne, matt-damon, Penguin Random House, The Bourne DefianceLeave a comment

Review: The Blackbriar Genesis – Simon Gervais

Posted on 13/12/2023 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Robert Ludlum, Terrorism, Thriller

A revelation

Tagged Head Of Zeus, Jason Bourne, Penguin Random House, Simon Gervais, The Blackbriar Genesis, TreadstoneLeave a comment

Review: World War Z – Max Brooks

Posted on 13/12/2023 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller

World War Zed. Not Zee...

Tagged Broadway Books, Crown Publishing, horror, Max Brooks, Random House, World War Z, Zombies1 Comment

Review: The Treadstone Resurrection – Joshua Hood

Posted on 08/08/202112/11/2022 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Robert Ludlum

What a load of Bournes!

Tagged Head Of Zeus, Jason Bourne, Joshua Hood, The Bourne Legacy, The Treadstone Resurrection, TreadstoneLeave a comment

Review: Assignment In Brittany – Helen MacInnes

Posted on 10/05/2021 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Spy Fiction, The Second World War

Hearne looked down at the faded uniform which had once been Corlay’s, felt once more for the papers in the inside pocket. He was ready. From now on he was one step away from death…

Tagged Assignment In Brittany, Helen Macinnes, Titan BooksLeave a comment

Review: Past Tense – Lee Child

Posted on 10/01/202021/03/2020 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

He must be running out of no-name, middle-of-nowhere towns by now

Tagged Jack Reacher, Lee Child, Past Tense, TransworldLeave a comment

Review: The Code Hunters – Jackson Coppley

Posted on 07/09/201910/01/2020 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction

Gone

Tagged Contour Press, Jackson Coppley, Nicholas Foxe, The Code HuntersLeave a comment

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