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		<title>Book Review: The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/7474</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Tomlinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Extinction Clock is counting down. Time is short—10,800 minutes (just seven days)—and if the clock zeroes out, billions will die.
Ex-cop Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Science) are assigned the mission to stop the clock and the men behind it, a pair of freakishly brilliant monsters who intend to commit genocide on an apocalyptic scale.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/6902</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garrity is an archetype, an ill-understood and imperiled hero who after overcoming every obstacle, exits hand-in-hand with the alluring heroine. It is part of the fun for our heroes to be bigger, somehow, than life, and for villains to be so brilliantly inventive and evil as to rival Satan himself. This fictional world of good and bad provides the reader with a comforting temporary escape from the real world with all its pesky shades of gray. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Dark Matter by Peter Straub</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/6582</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Tomlinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Novelist Lee Harwell is having breakfast at his favorite Chicago diner when a hostile homeless guy shouting a single word—<em>obstreperous</em>—interrupts his meal.  He’s unsettled by the encounter and finally realizes why.  The homeless man reminds him of his childhood friend Hootie who has been confined to a mental hospital since the sixties and communicates only in single words and literary quotations.]]></description>
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		<title>Under the Dome by Stephen King</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/5394</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Tomlinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still, despite the ending, this is King’s best work in years, a richly textured novel of people under pressure that will move readers and provoke them and make them want to tell their friends.  Forget <em>Blaze</em> and <em>Duma Key</em>, the King is back.  Long live the King.]]></description>
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		<title>Rain Gods By James Lee Burke</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4177</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burke’s life has provided ample experience to draw from for his mysteries that feature world-wise and often world-weary characters that have come to the points in their existences where doing the right thing, helping others and standing up to evil sometimes just seems like the path of least resistance.]]></description>
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		<title>A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1680</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over the last three hundred pages – did we will this? Are we guilty of this ending, if only by five percent? The brutal inanity of the dialogue is a warning that in Le Carré’s world, we don’t get to argue over the proportions and scale of what we set in motion.]]></description>
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		<title>Odd Hours by Dean Koontz</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/771</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ogres are like onions, the great philosopher Shrek once said. Onions have layers, ogres have layers. And, one might add in an irrational syllogism, ogres and onions are a lot like <em>Odd Hours</em> by Dean Koontz. ]]></description>
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		<title>Gas City by Loren Estleman</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/712</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The characters and the settings in <em>Gas City</em> are rife with intriguing promise that never seems delivered. The story seems one- two-dimensional, never fully realized. That’s why I was unable to remember much of the book. There are a number of good scenes, but with so many quality novels out and about, including several by Estleman himself, these brief flashes of excellence are not sufficient to recommend the book.]]></description>
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		<title>The Tin Roof Blowdown By James Lee Burke</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/289</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because he’s a damn good writer James Lee Burke knows how to keep a plot going from start to finish with no loose ends or out-of-the-blue surprises that amateurishly attempt to explain and finish off a narrative.]]></description>
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		<title>City of Fire By Robert Ellis</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/286</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are red herrings aplenty, but once finished reading the novel I’m left with a sense of annoyance at these diversions, so often delightful necessities in other mysteries, but close to being filler in this one.]]></description>
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		<title>Trashed by Alison Gaylin</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/281</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These driven individuals scour celebrity garbage cans, pose as anyone but themselves, lie as though the truth was a concept to be scorned and in general have all of the journalistic ethics commonly associated with FOX News. Getting the goods on the rich and famous is all that matters in this weird league.]]></description>
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		<title>The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/276</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is so great a prize, it makes it harder to follow the runner.]]></description>
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		<title>The Trade &#8211; By Shirley Palmer</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/173</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Blairon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Lowell is a character straight out of central casting for the Lifetime Network. He’s a down to earth, single guy living on the beach in Malibu. He restores old warehouses (in touch with his creative side) into beautiful lofts in rundown parts of Los Angeles. But he has one big problem – the big “C.” No no, not that big “C”, the other one – Commitment.]]></description>
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		<title>Down Here &#8211; by Andrew Vachss</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/120</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popularity of this self-absorbed, naïve dreck should astound me. It doesn’t considering the current woeful state of New York publishing.]]></description>
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		<title>The Collector by John Fowles</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/113</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garan Holcombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fowles was a writer who always seemed content to remain in the shadows, on the edge of things. He would emerge now and again to play the part of the cantankerous recluse, but he was, in essence a private, even hermetic man.]]></description>
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		<title>Alibi by Joseph Kanon</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/93</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Stowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Kanon’s summer potboiler is a weak whodunnit set in the seedy splendor of post-war Venice.]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview With Thriller Writer Stephen White</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/87</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["When I started writing the pages in 1989 that later evolved to became my first book, I had no intent, conception, premonition, or clue that I was creating characters that would endure for over a dozen books."]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Writer Vicki Stiefel</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/82</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Straw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I have a general idea where I'm going, but Tally and Company take me there. They often surprise me, which is the great fun of writing fiction."]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Balkans &#8211;  Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/49</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today. Like his predecessor Somerset Maugham, Ambler sought to transform the genre from the verbal banality and minimal characterizations of authors William Le Queux and Edward Oppenheim to a more sophisticated, morally ambiguous world of deception and danger.]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/42</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the genre with respect to the degree of personal doubt and insecurity that over-shadows the mission – the same note, albeit greatly amplified, that is found in the novels of such well-known successors as Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, and John Le Carré, whose spy stories may be correctly seen, in part at least, as a continuance of John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet.]]></description>
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