The Marching Season

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Summary: A fast paced thriller
Review: I admit that I am hooked on Silva; read Mark in paperback and was so thrilled after reading it that I bought The Marching Season right away!! Michael Osbourne is growing on me like Harry Bosch; a gripping thriller that is a good read

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Summary: One of the best
Review: I enjoyed reading this book. I became a little dissapointed when the character Micheal joined sides with October, when they are suppose to be enemies. I'm looking forward to his next book hoping that it includes the same people. I prefer The Mark of the Assassin over all of his works but this one was also a great espoinage thriller and always kept me hanging.

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Summary: The Marching Season
Review: I had not heard of Daniel Silva when I purchased this book but I will certainly read more of his. This was the best novel I have read in some time.

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Summary: An Exciting Read
Review: I have surely found a new author that I enjoy. The story started a little slow with the Irish situation but corrected quickly and became a real page turner. This is the first of his books I have read, I will now begin to read all of them.

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Summary: Best Book By Daneil Silva Yet
Review: I love this book more then anything. It's the best dam thriller out there

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Summary: Formulaic but fast
Review: I reread this book recently and failed to see why it had stuck out in my mind as one of the better espionage books I had come across. The plot is derivatave, taking elements from authors like Ludlum as well as modern movies...believe me this isn't anything anyone familiar with the genre hasn't seen many times. The main characters are pretty clichéd, the new family man who must return to the CIA (think Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) and the coldhearted assassin who will stop at nothing to fulfill his mission. On the positive side, I was never bored with the book. It hums along on a decent page and builds tension fairly well. Unfortunately, the ending is anticlimactic and the story goes more or less where expected. Basically, if you are looking for the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries, this is it.

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Summary: Good story well told, and new friends come back.
Review: I still remember the first time I read John Buchan. There is a memory of Buchan in Silva's novels. There is complexity of story and personalities that dynamically draws the reader along. There is a great sense of place, and an unerring insight into what can explode into action, and how. Terrorism brings death into our everyday life, and I for one am glad that Osbourne is there knowing something about where it may strike and doing something about it. Corruption is all around us in this novel, but so is integrity. The integrity is straightforward in Osbourne, his wife and his father in law; and it is twisted but recognizable in Delaroche. I think there will be more stories, but for now I am sated with the literate adventure in this book. An East coast reader.

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Summary: So-So Silva
Review: I wasn't thrilled when I learned that Silva had decided to address the "Troubles" in his new book. However, once I got into it, I really enjoyed the subject. Unfortunately, Silva didn't seem to trust his instincts and the second half became a run-of-the-mill "chased by the assassin across Europe and through DC" tale that's been told a million times. Silva claims he's not going to use Osborne and Delaroche in his next book. I don't find either character all that interesting and I won't miss them.

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Summary: Great read
Review: I went to college with Daniel Silva and had a big crush on him, so that's why I started reading his books. But now I'm kind of hooked just for the characters alone. This is my favorite one so far, because I liked the Douglas Cannon character. Now if only he could write female characters as well. Douglas's wife (Elizabeth?) is a potentially great character, and I would like to see him expand on her motivations if/when he revisits the Cannon family.

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Summary: need more of Oct.
Review: I wish that Oct. had more stories about him. Even though he is an assassin, and bad. I still liked reading about him. Its just fun reading about what is going on in his head and how he deals with his killing. This book was still good, but a slow read. If you read the Mark of the assassin, you should read this one as well. Just don't expect to read it in a few days, like i am used to doing.