By Rodolphe & Leo Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183956 Very pleased to see there’s a new Trent book, and it’s a very good one at that. Trent is doing his duty as a Mountie to deliver a low rate criminal to justice to the big city. This means several days travel across the Canadian wilderness, stopping […]
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IAN 3. Blitzkrieg
By Meyer & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183734 Starting off like a grittier version of International Rescue, my initial expectation was that we were on for a series of hi-octane rescue adventures in improbable places. But IAN’s not been like that at all. Instead, it’s a deeper exploration into ‘self’, with questions of who we […]
IAN 1. An Electric Monkey
By Meyer & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183710 Artificial Intelligence seems to be rarely away from the news, and is certainly an increasingly common plot device across books, movies, TV, and comics. Have you noticed how to often it takes the form of an emerging sinister threat? This is natural, and perhaps inevitable. Could our […]
Lady S Vol 6: A Second Of Eternity
By Aymond & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849184212 If you pick up a Van Hamme book you’re guaranteed to get a smartly written thriller, whatever the genre he’s writing for. With Lady S it’s a contemporary mix of crime and espionage, suffused with twists and double-crosses. Lady S, or Shania, is unwittingly thrown into […]
Twenty Years Later
By Dany & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849184151 In this follow up book to Story Without A Hero the timeframe jumps two decades. The survivors of the air crash in the jungle made good with their improvised hot air balloon escape and are now living separate lives, not least Laurent who has grown to […]
Mazeworld
By Grant & Ranson Publisher: Rebellion ISBN: 9781781086568 It’s been three decades since the death penalty was abolished in Britain, but now Adam Cadman is to the first in a new swathe. Except Adam’s execution doesn’t go to plan, and rather than dying he finds himself on Mazeworld, still in the hood he was hung […]
