This story connects three different roles and several places. A private security contractor who loses his life in Congo, an ex-prime minister of Ireland struggles to bury a dark secret, and a suspicious injury which recently happens to a US senator who begins his presidential campaign. How these three stories…
This is a story of a ghostwriter who has accepted a job to write a memoir for a former prime minister of Britain. The first ghostwriter dies unexpectedly and he is being hired for the replacement. He knows little about politics and his past experience lies in portraying aging rock…
Tokyo Vice is a memoir wrote by an American journalist, Jake Adelstein of his experience as the first foreign reporter working for one of Japan's largest newspapers, Yomiuri Shimbun. In this book, he covers the in-depth look at the Japanese culture along with the dark side of Japan which includes…
This novel is about a zookeeper's son, Pi Patel or to be exact, Piscine Molitor Patel, who shares a lifeboat with a hyena, a broken leg zebra, a female orang-utan(Orange Juice), and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger(Richard Parker) after the sinking of a cargo ship. The story begins…
Here are some of my favourite quotes from 'The Kite Runner': "Children aren't colouring books. You don't get to fill them with your favourite colours." "Self-defense has nothing to do with meanness." "God has granted you a special talent. It is now your duty to…
Here are some of my favourite quotes from the book 'The Lost Symbol' by Dan Brown: Human instinct was America's first line of defense against terrorism. It was a proven fact that human intuition was a more accurate detector of danger than all the electronic gear in the world -…
I felt it's an average story but slightly better than 'The Summons'. This story is about an attractive and smart girl, Darby who tries to avoid geting killed after the leakage of the brief. Her attractiveness has been mentioned several times in the book and I was wondered who will…
I just finished reading this book for the second time. The story was not that impressive except the ending part where the girl doesn't keeps the money and returns it to Fitch. Her main intention is to prevent the tobacco company from winning the trial and the reason of doing…
When the first time someone recommended this book to me, I was wondering whether I will like it as I seldom read Asian fiction books. However, I've heard a lot of good reviews about this book and I decided to give it a try. Although I've just finished reading the…
The first book in this year for me is 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' by a Swedish author, Stieg Larsson. This book was recommended by another colleague in Sydney few months ago and if I'm not mistaken, it was one of the top listed books in Australia at that…