I make my pitch for an old friend and mentor - Ross Thomas. Trust me. Lots of great writers make me want to read. Thomas made me want to write.

Ken Bruen, Bill James' Harpur and Iles Brit police, Thomas Perry, Alan Furst ( period piece espionage ) Phillip Kerr ( Nazi era Berlin noir ) James Lee Burke (even better on CD read by Will Patton) the amazing Robert Littell, and Len Deighton's three trilogies (Bernard Sampson MI-6). Bernard Cornwell, and one of the greatest literary treats : the Flashman books, but George MacDonald Frasier (google it if you don't know it)



>>I just finished a really good book and wanted to share it with UT
>>Code to zero by Ken Follet
>>http://www.amazon.com/Code-Zero-Ken-Follett/dp/0525945636
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>You might enjoy Raymond Khoury books. I just finished The Sanctuary and also read The Last Templar not long ago.
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>Some other good books I read within the past couple of weeks:
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>David Baldacci, Stone Cold
>Greg Iles, Third Degree
>Patricia Cornwell, Book of the Dead
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>I tend to discover a good book and then read everything by that author back to back for a while and then jump around authors again. I've run through too many authors already. I average 2 books a week (just enjoy reading) and if I don't read everyday, code keeps rattling around in my brain. :o)
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>I've read almost everything by Elizabeth Peters, Janet Evanovich, PD James, Agatha Christie, Robert Parker, Jeffrey Deaver, Rita Mae Brown, Sue Grafton, James Patterson, John Grisham, Tami Hoag, Dan Brown, Martha Grimes, Jeffrey Archer, Brad Meltzer, Dick Francis, Anne Perry, Lillian Jackson Brown, Diane Mott Davidson, Lisa Scottoline, Steve Berry, Tess Gerritsen, and too many others to list. Some were mysteries, some were suspense thrillers, and some were just light reading. I recommend all.