Tales of a Book Addict

Mailbox Monday is on tour, with October’s location being at Savvy Verse & Wit.

Okay, so technically I’m cheating this week. I didn’t have anything arrive in my mailbox, but I did buy three new books at Wal-Mart. **BAD TARA!**

 A hydroelectric dam blows up and the largest off-shore oil field in the hemisphere is destroyed, killing legions of Americans and bringing the country’s largest energy company to its knees. Among the survivors lies a mysterious oil platform worker and America’s best hope for retribution: Dewey Andreas, a former Army Ranger and Delta who is dead-set on following the trail of the terrorists. As intelligence and law enforcement agencies scramble to untangle the Capitana disaster and unearth those responsible, the mysterious figure of Alexander Fortuna – an agent embedded into the highest levels of American society and business – sets into play the next of many long-planned assaults on the U.S. economic infrastructure. Now it’s up to Dewey to put a stop to him … before it’s too late.

 Called on by family friend and government bigwig Earl Parker to chaperone Tillman Davis from Southeast Asia to D.C., Gideon will rely on his peerless tactical skills. But when the hand-off goes awry and Parker is taken hostage, Gideon must evade hostile locals in war-torn Mohan to make his way to a multimillion-dollar oil rig that has been seized by Tillman’s terrorist faction. With the help of rig manager Kate Murphy, Gideon has 48 hours to bring in the man he once called his brother – before a twisted global conspiracy turns deadly.

 Buried within the black ops budgets of the Department of Defense, a newly created spy agency reports only to a secret panel of military insiders. Its job is to target America’s enemies – both foreign and domestic – under a charter of three simple words: Find, Fix, and Finish. When a bombing in Rome kills a group of American college students, the evidence points to a dangerous colleague from Harvath’s past. Tasked with leveraging this relationship to lure the man out of hiding, Harvath must destroy him. But what if it is the wrong man? In Chicago a young woman is struck by a taxi in a hit-and-run, and the family’s attorney uncovers a shocking connection to the Rome bombing. Harvath must link together the disparate violence, and race to prevent one of the most audacious and unthinkable acts of war in the history of mankind.

Mailbox Monday is on tour, with September’s location being at Amused by Books.

Well I’ve been MIA since the 21st. Sorry about that. It’s been kind of hectic here at my place. The hubby’s gallbladder is shot. We have a consultation with a surgeon tomorrow. So I’ve been having to go to the doctor with him, twice last week. And then tomorrow’s appointment. Hopefully they will schedule him soon because he’s miserable. Then over the weekend we went up to St. Louis to see the Cards/Cubs games on Saturday and Sunday. The Cards won both games! Woo! Plus the Braves lost yesterday so now, if I’ve got this right, we’re only 1 out from the Wild Card race. Exciting! And today ….. I would like to wish my husband a very happy 27th birthday! So there’s all my news. Well at least all I can share with everyone right now 🙂 On to the books.

I only got two in the mail this past week. Both came from Paperbackswap, using points, helping me to round out a series I’m working on right now:

 Scot Harvath’s counterterrorism career has just crashed and burned – thanks in part to a ruthless senator with her sights set on the White House. But when the war on terror takes a chilling turn, the president has no choice but to secretly bring Harvath back inside. Deep beneath an Alpine glacier, an ancient weapon designed to decimate the Roman Empire has been unearthed – and a shadowy organization intends to use it for America’s downfall. Racing across Europe, Harvath must secure the ultimate instrument of destruction before it brings the United States and the rest of the world to its knees.

 July 4th weekend, New York City: As thousands of holiday travelers make their way out of Manhattan, a flawlessly executed terrorist attack plunges the city into a maelstrom of panic and death. Amidst the chaos, an elite team of foreign soldiers is systematically searching for one of their own, a man so powerful that the U.S. government refuses to admit he even exists and will do anything to keep him hidden. Now, with the world’s deadliest enemy upon America’s doorstep, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must fight his way through the burning city streets to take down an invisible terrorist mastermind with the means to unleash hell on a global scale.