Book Recommendations

[spyderco monkey]

Available as free PDF:

https://www.pdfdrive.com/rogue-male-...196931316.html

Or Amazon for Hardcopy / Kindle:

https://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Male-Re.../dp/1590172434

Written in 1938, its a thrilling today as it was then. Basically a professional big game hunter, bored with hunting animals, decides to go hunt Hitler as the ultimate big game...

1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator’s private compound. He does. He has the potential target in his sites and is wondering whether to pull the trigger when security catches up with him. Imprisoned, tortured, doomed to a painful death, the hunter makes an extraordinary and harrowing escape, fleeing through enemy territory to the safety of his native England. But that safety is delusive: his pursuers will not be diverted from their revenge by national borders; the British government cannot protect him without seeming to endorse his deed. The hunter must flee society, and he goes literaly underground, like a fox to its earth. The hunter has become the hunted.

[Half Moon]

Available as free PDF:

https://www.pdfdrive.com/rogue-male-...196931316.html

Or Amazon for Hardcopy / Kindle:

https://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Male-Re.../dp/1590172434

Written in 1938, its a thrilling today as it was then. Basically a professional big game hunter, bored with hunting animals, decides to go hunt Hitler as the ultimate big game...

1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator’s private compound. He does. He has the potential target in his sites and is wondering whether to pull the trigger when security catches up with him. Imprisoned, tortured, doomed to a painful death, the hunter makes an extraordinary and harrowing escape, fleeing through enemy territory to the safety of his native England. But that safety is delusive: his pursuers will not be diverted from their revenge by national borders; the British government cannot protect him without seeming to endorse his deed. The hunter must flee society, and he goes literaly underground, like a fox to its earth. The hunter has become the hunted.

I've heard of it and should read it (especially with a free .pdf).

For noir adventure from that period I favor Dashiell Hammett but a close second, especially for a European perspective, is Eric Ambler. If you haven't read A Coffin for Dimitrios it's worth the time.

A British mystery writer searching for inspiration for a new novel starts looking into the life of Dimitrios - a notorious criminal whose body was recently identified in a Turkish morgue. As he digs in he finds himself trapped in a web of espionage, drug and arms running, and the shadows of inter-war Europe. Probably Ambler's best work.

[blues]

I'm about halfway through this one but it strikes me as one that a great many P-F'ers would enjoy. (I know I am, thus far.) Guns, guts, violence, full figured women...a western with some buildup and some bite.

https://www.amazon.com/Congregation-.../dp/B01M4G7T96

[Coyotesfan97]

I'm about halfway through this one but it strikes me as one that a great many P-F'ers would enjoy. (I know I am, thus far.) Guns, guts, violence, full figured women...a western with some buildup and some bite.

https://www.amazon.com/Congregation-.../dp/B01M4G7T96

He wrote Wraiths of the Broken Lands. I’m in!

[DDTSGM]

Just finished Agincourt by Bernard Cromwell.

Not sure which I appreciated more, the story or the historical notes.

Thanks to whomever recommended it.

I'm off to the garage where I've painted a face on a volleyball, I'm going to stick it in an old MX helmxt and practice flipping up the visor and sticking a dagger in the volleyball's eye.

[blues]

He wrote Wraiths of the Broken Lands. I’m in!

I have that one in my stack. Probably look at it when I finish the book on Churchill.

Near done with "Jackals". About 10% to go.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

The Bofors Gun by Terry Gander. Got it cheap. Not exciting but interesting on how it was developed and how this design from the 1930's is still being used in older and modern versions around the world. I still recall when Sportmans Warehouse had an add for 40mm in their flyer. Interesting discussion on how modern missiles may not be that useful against incoming close up antiship missiles that come in low.

[spyderco monkey]

I've heard of it and should read it (especially with a free .pdf).

For noir adventure from that period I favor Dashiell Hammett but a close second, especially for a European perspective, is Eric Ambler. If you haven't read A Coffin for Dimitrios it's worth the time.

A British mystery writer searching for inspiration for a new novel starts looking into the life of Dimitrios - a notorious criminal whose body was recently identified in a Turkish morgue. As he digs in he finds himself trapped in a web of espionage, drug and arms running, and the shadows of inter-war Europe. Probably Ambler's best work.

Excellent, thank you. Just downloaded 'coffin':

https://www.pdfdrive.com/a-coffin-fo...194563986.html

I'm a Hammet fan too; Red Harvest is my favorite. Basically a mob story in a lead mining town where everyone has become lead poisoned murderous - tommy guns, impact activated nitro grenades, dames, fast talking. I'm amazed it wasn't made into a movie.

https://www.pdfdrive.com/red-harvest-e183803054.html

Definitely check out Rogue Male; I don't think I've ever read a book that starts off so quickly, and its just a really simple tale elegantly told. Rogue was also a big influence on David Morell when he wrote 'First Blood' - which subsequently became Rambo.

[Stephanie B]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1597970700/

A lot of detail of the history leading up to organization and training of the minute men and the militia. The legend of a bunch of simple farmers grabbing their guns and acting as a semi- organized force is far from the truth.

[Stephanie B]

Not sure if this has been posted but I finished Tombstone and I thought it was fascinating. It started slow with the history of SE AZ but once it hit the Earps and Cowboys it picked up. I had seen some of the stuff on Behan and the Earps going to trial but the level of politics would drop into 2020 seamlessly.

Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250214580..._pTSZFb9P8SRXM

I'm going to differ on this one. Tombstone had almost nothing about the gunfight itself. And Die in the West was a denser read, more difficult for me to get through, but it did have details on the actual event.

https://www.amazon.com/Die-West-K-Co...dp/0806128887/