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Tuesday, 16 June 2015
Smokescreen. A Novel by Khaled Talib. Book Trailer. "One of the best espionage thrillers around!"
Smokescreen
By Khaled Talib
Plot
The scene of the story is set in the Island of Singapore,
where the Israeli government are seeking to put an end to the Palestinian conflict;
however several Israeli officials want to kill their own leader and plan to
assassinate him by framing an innocent reporter called Jethro Westrope,
commonly known as Jet West, who works for the country’s leading lifestyle
magazine.
Jet initially thinks that one of the men that is chasing him
is the husband of the wife he has been sleeping with and has no idea until Niki
Kishwani, a public relations manager of the Singapore Tourism Board tries to
warn him that there are some men who are following him and want to fame him for
the murder of an important person. Jet
finds himself in a situation where he is being chased by Chan’s henchmen while
at the same time trying to clear his good name as Yung kills Niki, in an
attempt to set Jet up for the murder.
Jet is forced to go into hiding and meets Michael Dexter, who offers him refuge in his
mansion. Michael encourages Jet to
contact Nikis best friend, Nicole Wong and convince her he didn’t kill Niki, and
that’s when even more dangers await as Jet goes from one threat to yet another
and the smear campaign to make him a scapegoat for further murders only
multiplies as the dead body count increases.
Will Jet be able to clear his name in time before he is
framed for the Israelis Prime Minister premeditated murder, or will Chan and
his men achieve their ultimate mission that will in effect change the course of
all their paths?
Main Characters
Chan Boon Seng –
Chief protocol officer of the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Characteristics – A big brusque man who
doesn’t care if people like him or not, black eyes, black hair that’s shaved
along the sides, streaked with white sleeked back. A graduate from the London School of
Economics, exceptional military career, rising to the rank of Colonel, trained
by the Israeli army.
Captain Eli Aviram
– A tall lean man in his forties with a thin scar across his left cheek, Chan’s
long time Israeli friend.
X – An old
mysterious man, a former Israeli spy who is now a military consultant.
Jethro Westrope – Well-toned
good-looking Eurasian, reporter, age 35, assistant editor at one of
Singaporeans leading lifestyle magazines, half Irish, half Chinese.
Niki Kishwani –
Public relations manager of the Singapore Tourism Board, age 28, a law graduate
from a local university, a covert operative for Chan, a double agent.
Mary Yeo - Niki Kishwani assassin. Yung murders her in cold blood in a church she was seeking repentance.
Nicole Wong - Niki
Kishwani best friend, a deputy public prosecutor.
Yung – A
remorseless assassin, who was sentenced to a mental institution for observation
and then to be hanged. Chan paid for his freedom after Yung had spent two years
in prison, in return Chan expected absolute loyalty. A special operations force
solider gone wrong, trained in counter-terrorist actions.
Michael Dexter – United
States Ambassador to Singapore, a CIA official, his specific mission is to save
the Israeli leader from assassination.
De Angelo – Loyal
colleague of Dexter’s.
Dialogue
The dialogue is natural and flows well throughout the whole
book with no signs of forced and unnecessary speech patterns with little or no
reference to the use of profanity.
Writing
Smokescreen is undoubtedly one of the best written espionage
thrillers I have had the honour of reading. I have read numerous spy novels but
this book is in a league of its own as one of the greatest fast-paced, gripping
and thought provoking plots that involves high-level politics, government
cover-ups, covert missions and a high pursuit chase of an innocent man trying
desperately to prove his innocence.
Khaled Talib is a master of depicting real life scenarios such
as the current connections between Israel and Singapore into a work of
unforgettable fiction that will leave you breathless and wanting more. I highly recommend this book to readers of
Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy.
My Rating:
5 stars
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my reviews:
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Sunday, 14 June 2015
Inventive and clever with genuine laugh-out-loud humour! “A Fistful of Clones" By Seaton Kay-Smith
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A Fistful of Clones is a comedy sci-fi novel and follows the protagonist, Henry Madison, who is 26 years old and floats through life without any real desire, direction or motivation and seems to be emotionally cut off from the very few people in his life. When he loses his job as a coupon boy and his girlfriend in the same day he makes a rash decision to sign up for medical testing, so he won’t starve to death. However, a few days after he donates his various forms of DNA he receives some disturbing news from the doctor who is unknowingly constructing Henry’s clones that seven of the clones have escaped. Dr Efflund insists that only Henry can hunt them down and kill them and manages to convince a very reluctant Henry with a large amount of money and some special combat training to terminate his doppelgängers ASAP. Henry soon discovers much to his despair that his carbon copies are running around trying to ruin his life and his original mission to stop them all in a short space of time isn’t working as the clones soon develop personalities of their own. After he hesitantly murders clone number five, his conscience gets the better of him and instead of murdering the remaining two clones, he comes up with a plan to try to save them as his own life is on the line as the doctor and his ruthless associates will stop at nothing to end all traces of the scientific experiment that went horribly wrong.
Seaton Kay-Smith has created a story that is well written, inventive and clever with genuine laugh-out-loud humour that is entirely effortless and entertaining to read. It’s almost like the disarming and friendly style in which it was written wraps you up in the story and refuses to let go. Each character, especially Henry, who is my favourite, is equally flawed, believable and realistic and complements the plot’s cause and effect beautifully.
This is a novel that will stay with me for some time and is definitely one not to be missed and I highly recommend it and look forward to reading more of the author’s work in the near future.
My Ranking: 5 Stars
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Wednesday, 13 May 2015
5 Star Review: Mstislav By Eric Keys
Angela Hastings is the main female protagonist who works as
a high school teacher in a small village in New England. She is newly married to a mysterious man
named Roland, who is also Angela’s boss. Sometime after their union Roland abruptly loses
interest in Angela and spends most of his time locked away in his workroom in
the basement of their house. Angela
becomes frustrated and soon seeks new sexual encounters with the other men in
the village. The story starts off with a
hot and steamy threesome with two guys from a bakery and continues to get even
more hot and gory when Angela discovers her husband’s hidden secret in the
cellar of her home and she comes face to face with a demonic man called Mstislav,
who claims he is the son of Roland. Mstislav
convinces Angela that she must help him to gain the strength to break free from
Roland’s strong defences he has set up around the house that he is too weak to
break. Angela’s lust gives Mstislav
power, but he needs more death and fear before he can break free and embark on
his mission to rule the earth. Angela is
soon drawn in to a world full of blood, sex and glory as Mstislav promises to
make her his queen and she is given a supernatural infused strength to reign over
all men and women.
Eric Keys successfully manages to inject plenty of tension,
discomfort and intense sexual torture and violence that will take many readers
on a nefarious journey of paranormal erotica they will find hard to forget.
My Ranking: 5 Stars
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Friday, 24 April 2015
5 Star Review: Tangents By Agatha Rae
Four
uniquely incomparable people, Rick, Anna, Dan and Matylda each wake up in a
separate part of a mysterious forest, unaware of their new surroundings,
confused and in a state of panic after falling to sleep in their own worlds beforehand. It is not long before each of their paths
cross and they soon discover they are all from different times, cities and even
counties. Anna is from 2013, Rick is
from 2001, Dan is from 2005 and Matylda is from 2004 and they have no clue
about why they have all woken up in these endless woods with the unbearably hot
sun that shows no signs of retiring.
They decide to stick together in the hope that they can find a way out
before it gets dark. In their journey
for survival against many attacks from gigantic insects, enormous and deadly
snakes and trees that come alive that try to strangle them with their
roots. They soon discover they need to
find refuge that will protect them from the strange forces of Mother Nature
before they can figure a way out of this strange sphere without losing their
lives.
On their
journey to safety they all learn a little about one another as each of them
have a distinctive back story. As the
story unfolds it becomes clear that each and every one of them seem to be experiencing
some kind of turmoil with their loved ones.
Anna eventually develops a devastating theory why they are all there and
convinces the others that they all share links to overwhelming events in
history that will soon take place and they need to get out of this place ASAP. But their biggest obstacle is how to get back
to their lives in time to prevent the people they love from what is about to
take place.
A highly
entertaining and addictive story with plenty of twists and turns to keep the
reader guessing why these four uniquely different people have been brought
together with an unexpected and breathtakingly good ending that will prompt any
reader to wait anxiously for the second
instalment.
My Ranking:
5 Stars
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