2017 Reading List

2017 was a year of nostalgia and new discoveries. In January I re-read The Second Deadly Sin by Laurence Sanders, which featured his character, Edward X. Delany. I enjoyed that so much I re-read the four books in his Commandment series which features a variety of interesting main characters which Sanders is famous for creating.

In the spring I got back into Jack Higgins novels after many years of not reading anything from him. Back in the early 80’s I discovered the book, The Eagle Has Landed. It’s the story of a secret mission by German Paratroopers to parachute into England and assassinate Winston Churchill. It has remained one of my favorite novels to this day. In the early spring, one of my co-workers was reading a Jack Higgins novel from his Sean Dillon series. I purchased the first book in the series, titled The Eye of the Storm, and was hooked.

Reading List

1. Odessa Sea – Clive Cussler
2. The Second Deadly Sin – Laurence Sanders
3. The Sixth Commandment – Laurence Sanders
4. The Tenth Commandment – Laurence Sanders
5. The Eight Commandment – Laurence Sanders
6. The Seventh Commandment- Laurence Sanders
7. 1984 – George Orwell
8. The Emperor’s Revenge – Clive Cussler
9. The Einstein Prophesy – Robert Masello
10. The Lost Codex – Alan Jacobson
11. Duty and Honor (Jack Ryan Jr. Series) – Grant Blackwood
12. Deception Point – Dan Brown
13. Eye of the Storm – Jack Higgins
14. Thunder Point– Jack Higgins
15. Angel of Death– Jack Higgins
16. Drink with the Devil– Jack Higgins
17. The President’s Daughter – Jack Higgins
18. Dragon Teeth – Michael Crichton
19. Midnight Runner – Jack Higgins
20. Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles – Bernard Cornwell
21. Nighthawk – Clive Cussler
22. Raiders Wake – James L. Nelson
23. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival – John Vaillant
24. Medicus (did not finish) – Ruth Downie
25. Bad Company – Jack Higgins
26. The Archers – Martin Archer
27. Tucker – Louis L’Amour
28. The Eagle Has Landed (re-read) – Jack Higgins
29. Without Mercy – Jack Higgins
30. The Archer’s Castle – Martin Archer
31. Touch the Devil – Jack Higgins
32. The Dogs of War  (re-read) – Fredrick Forsyth
33. Confessional – Jack Higgins
34. Lost City of the Monkey God – Douglas Preston
35. The Bormann Testament – Jack Higgins
36. The Holcroft Covenant – Robert Ludlum
37. Shock Wave (re-read) – Clive Cussler
38. The Odessa File (re-read) – Fredrick Forsyth
39. Typhoon Fury (Oregon Files)– Clive Cussler
40. Pharaoh –  Wilbur Smith
41. Myths of the Norsemen (Puffin Classic ) – Roger Green
42. Loch Garman – James L. Nelson