You may know Jake Tapper from CNN. Jake has now turned out a book, Race Against Terror , that reads like a novel.   The book is Tapper’s true-crime-style account of the effort to prosecute an al Qaeda operative, Spin Ghul, after he unexpectedly surrendered in Italy in 2011 and confessed to killing American soldiers in Afghanistan. The book follows federal prosecutors and investigators as they race to build a case with evidence from a long-past battlefield, while also showing the broader...

Warning: This book ends leaving it to a sequel to finish the story. The sequel will not be available until April14, 2026.   With that said, when you finish the book, you see how Baldacci has crafted a bad-ass fighter through something of a metamorphosis. So, I’ll try not to put spoilers in this review.   Basically, Nash Falls  is a corporate thriller about Walter Nash, a high‑level executive at Sybaritic Investments whose comfortable life implodes when he’s coerced into spying on his own firm...

Contempt of Court  is the second Charlie Trust legal thriller by Jake Needham, following Habeas Corpus . It continues the story of Charlie Trust, a burned‑out American lawyer drawn back into legal and moral conflict in Southern California in the early 1990s.   In the story, the man lending Charlie his beach house in Malibu has a favor to ask. How can he refuse? After all, the man is lending Charlie a fantastic place on the Pacific next door to Ryan O’Neil and Farrah Fawcett. The favor is to...