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Old 03-02-2013, 12:57 AM   #6
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Several nice offerings today. Not free, but at or very near the lowest price they've been at (for single days) in the last year, and a significant discount from standard pricing. @ of these also have reduced price WhisperSync audiobooks available as a companion purchase.

Killing Castro, by Lawrence Block is $2.99 at Amazon US & Kobo
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004GTLSH0

http://www.kobobooks.com/search/sear...Killing+Castro


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From Booklist
Hard Case Crime continues to resurrect early work by genre stalwart Lawrence Block that was orginally published in mass-market paperback under various pseudonyms. This one may be the most interesting find of all: published in 1961, before the Cuban Missile Crisis and only a few years after Castro assumed control of the government, the novel anticipates the various off-the-wall attempts by the U.S. to assassinate the Cuban leader. Five Americans, some hardened criminals, others idealists with various anti-Castro axes to grind, are offered $20,000 each if any of them succeed in killing the dictator. Three separate plots unwind simultaneously, as Block tracks the reactions of his five principals as they, variously, realize the improbability of their task, stick to their idealistic guns, or come under the sway of the Cuban nationals they encounter. The ending may seem far-fetched in light of later history, but as a kind of alternate pulp history, the novel works just fine, with plenty of blood and bullets and, as always with Block, a fine feel for character. A curiosity, yes, but also an entertaining thriller.

Pale Horse Coming, by Stephen Hunter is also $2.99, Amazon US
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EVNM40
The Audible audiobook is available as an add-on for $3.99
Not reduced at Kobo or B&N as of yet.


Hunter's popular series follows the reluctant hard-man, ex-military sniper Bob Lee Swagger. This one is from a sub-series featuring ing Bob Lee's father, Earl Swagger.
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From Publishers Weekly
Earl Swagger, the gritty WWII-vet hero of Hunter's bestselling thriller Hot Springs, is back in this virtually un-put-downable gothic chiller about unspeakable evil in the murky Mississippi bayous. In 1951, five years after the conclusion of Hot Springs, straight arrow ex-county prosecutor Sam Vincent tells Earl - his trusted friend and former investigator, now a sergeant in the Arkansas state police - that he has been hired by a Chicago attorney to travel to Thebes, a mythic prison camp in the remote backwaters of Mississippi to verify the death of a black man who is the beneficiary of a will left by a one-time employer. When Earl hasn't heard from Sam by an agreed upon date, he goes looking for him and discovers that he is being held in the prison. Earl frees Sam, but is taken prisoner himself. Tortured by the prison hierarchy who fear he has been sent by a federal agency to expose their abominable secrets, Earl, aided by a trusty, escapes, vowing to return to destroy the camp and kill its evil warden and his henchmen.

Ira Levin's The Boys From Brazil is $2.99 at Amazon US, Kobo, and B&N.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004W8NS5K
The Audible audiobook is available as an add-on for $3.99

http://www.kobobooks.com/search/sear...ys+from+brazil

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/boys...=9781453217580

Levin wrote many bestsellers that have also been turned into Hollywood movies, including the above, Rosemary's Baby, and The Stepford Wives.

The classic thriller of Dr. Josef Mengele’s nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich

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Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project. Barry Koehler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the scheme and informs famed Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann, but before he can relay the evidence, Koehler is killed.
Thus Ira Levin opens one of the strangest and most masterful novels of his career. Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them? What interest can they possibly hold for their killers: six former SS men dispatched from South America by the most wanted Nazi still alive, the notorious “Angel of Death”? One man alone must answer these questions and stop the killings—Liebermann, himself aging and thought by some to be losing his grip on reality.
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