© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-wickengel Recent reviews written by member wickengel en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_339025694340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Hitler's Peace is an entirely different work from Philip Kerr's celebrated Berlin Noir Tetralogy featuring Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther(please see my epinions on March Violets, A Pale Criminal, A Requiem for a German and The One from the Other). Kerr... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~339025694340 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:41:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_339025694340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338979491460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Joseph Kanon's The Good German jumps to life in the opening and keeps you engaged straight through to the end. This is Kanon's best novel to date (see my epinions on The Prodigal Spy, Los Alamos and Alibi). The book is very different from the film,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338979491460 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:03:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338979491460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338722590340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Barracuda 945 has been unjustly maligned because it has been miscategorized. Patrick Robinson's story is a scenario and playbook that might have come directly from the US National Security Council. The book is emphatically not literature--it does not... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338722590340 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:23:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338722590340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338654826116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Carlo Weisz, international foreign correspondent, links the action in Madrid, Paris and Milan in Europe in late 1938 and 1939, particularly the exiled Italian Resistenza, in an unusual novel by Alan Furst. Why unusual? Four reasons. First, the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338654826116 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:15:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338654826116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338571595396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - "Harrison Ambler" has a problem: he does not know who he really is, and what may or may not be his past keeps coming back to haunt him--and kill him. A product of ultra-secret mind altering techniques, this shadowy Consular Operations assassin, code... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338571595396 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:52:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338571595396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338485153412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Jean Casson, the filmmaker and producer, is back from a foiled attempt to escape, now hiding from the Nazis in Paris in occupied France. You do not have to know the other novels of Alan Furst to appreciate this one, but you would benefit from consulting... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338485153412 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:10:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338485153412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338482073220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Alan Furst's sensitive, intelligent, dark and even brooding novel set in Europe in 1938 and 1939 is a literary masterpiece revealing the chessy form of espionage that worked against the Nazi menace in the run-up to World War II. The book winds up... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338482073220 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:15:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338482073220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_336746155652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Many reviews have appeared about Robert Harris's novel Archangel, but none has considered the book as having the same depth and nuance as his now-classic book Enigma. Harris's metier is secrecy, or rather layers of secrecy with each layer protected by... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~336746155652 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:59:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_336746155652?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_336720465540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - McNeill's seminal book, still as fresh and insightful today as the day it was first published, needs careful consideration as we enter the post-anti-microbial world. McNeill carefully analyzes the background of the devastating phenomenon of the Black... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~336720465540 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:34:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_336720465540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_336259616388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - You might think this book dated because it was first published in 1985 as the world swung into the final phase of the Cold War. Consider where Russia is headed now, then think again. "Adam Hall" keeps the tensions at their pitch in the operation... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~336259616388 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:34:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_336259616388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_334730137220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - If you were to read only one of Alan Furst's novels, you should read The World at Night. This is not only because of the poignant love story of filmmaker/producer Jean "Jean-Claude" Casson and the actress Citrine. You should also read it because of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~334730137220 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:25:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_334730137220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_334691339908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - You do not have to have read any other work by Alan Furst to enjoy this thrilling tale of clandestine operations against Nazi Germany (See my epinions on the others.), but each of his works connects to all the others in one broad view of agents working... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~334691339908 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:11:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_334691339908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_334648282756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Rajiv Chandrasekaran's excellent book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone will make you uncomfortable because its thesis is so simple and so devastating in its impacts: against all counsel to the contrary, occupation forces... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~334648282756 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:18:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_334648282756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_333792906884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - US Marine Col. Matthew Bogdanos, the soldier, scholar, sportsman and sleuth, was the soldier at the center of the search for the priceless archaeological and artistic treasures of Baghdad after the Second Gulf War. His story is told in this book with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~333792906884 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:06:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_333792906884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_333707185796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Philip Kerr's The One from the Other is the British author's fourth novel featuring detective Bernie Gunther, the first such in fifteen years. The prior three being known as the Berlin Trilogy or Noir Trilogy: (1) March Violets, (2) The Pale Criminal... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~333707185796 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:18:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_333707185796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_333640863364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Think Kill Bill (I and II) meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail--where the Grail is a trunk full of cash. This hard-edged novel of multiple double crosses, slow torture, botched and perfected killings, miraculous "up pipe" as well as monotonous... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~333640863364 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:20:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_333640863364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_333617663620?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - An author like Greg Rucka takes you where HE wants to go, not where you thought you wanted to go. Atticus Kodiak, his detective hero in Finder. Keeper and Smoker, is one thing. Atticus' friend and lover Bridgett Logan, heroine and narrator of Shooting... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~333617663620 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:27:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_333617663620?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_333549309572?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - George Alec Effinger's now-classic sci-fi novel When Gravity Fails is not for the faint of heart, but it is as relevant as the day it was first published in 1987, if not more so. In fact, the work integrates themes that resonate with the darkest... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~333549309572 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:55:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_333549309572?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_333233491588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Former CIA operator Robert Baer is not the only writer who has thought through the events leading up to the infamous 9/11 disaster that brought down two buildings of the World Trade Center and changed America forever, and he will not be the last--but he... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~333233491588 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:44:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_333233491588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_333097176708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - A German Requiem is the third part of Philip Kerr's so-called "noir trilogy" featuring the inimitable character Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther. Mind you, this brilliant literary work stands on its own merits--you do not have to read the other works in the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~333097176708 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:17:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_333097176708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_332712676996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - The Pale Criminal is the third of the so-called "noir trilogy" of Philip Kerr. The other two Bernhard Gunther mysteries in the trilogy are April Violets (please see my epinion on this excellent book) and A German Requiem (epinion to follow). Recently... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~332712676996 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:46:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_332712676996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_332666932868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Pililip Kerr's March Violets, the first of the so-called "noir" Bernhard Gunther novels (first a trilogy, now a tetralogy with thee publication of The One from the Other, has a harsh, sardonic, nettling style that some compare with that of Raymond... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~332666932868 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:38:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_332666932868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_332277911172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - The Tears of Autumn, Charles McCarry's explosive fiction about former CIA agent Paul Christopher's discovery of the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, resonates today as much as when it was first copyright in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~332277911172 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:03:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_332277911172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_332160208516?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - Popcorn and Hanft's hardcopy Dictionary of the Future is still a classic work in print, but every day the global vocabulary does another of its shifts, and the changes will never top ringing. Just as it is impossible to map the internet, so it is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~332160208516 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:45:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_332160208516?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_332113350276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wickengel - David Cornwell, aka "John Le Carre," is off way ahead of his readers--again! As many times in the past, the author has transformed his pace, persona and narrative style so thoroughly that we shall have to transform our vision of him--and, truly, of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~332113350276 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:05:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_332113350276?linkin_id=8003929