Book Reviews

Thrillers I’ve read and what I thought of them.

  • Ransom by Daniel Silva — Review

    Ransom by Daniel Silva — Review

    Completed September 9, 2026. Silva’s Ransom opens as a sophisticated disappearance mystery set among Britain’s privileged elite, then steadily widens into an international espionage thriller shaped by Russian influence, compromised wealth, artificial intelligence, and modern drone technology. The twenty-sixth Gabriel…

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  • The Elias Conspiracy by Simon Gervais — Review

    The Elias Conspiracy by Simon Gervais — Review

    Starting with this book, I’m going to review thrillers here on the blog. I read in the genre I write — political and espionage thrillers — so these are one novelist’s reads of another’s work: what the writer got right,…

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