Eagle Reviews

Bill Slider, the London Police Inspector from Shepherd's Bush is back - called to a investigate the death of a man found burned in a fire at a motel. One thing I'll say for Harrod-Eagles is she doesn't muck around before introducing the crimes in her novels and I do like that. The crime is done and you get the rest of the book to sift through the past with the detective.

The body might or might not have been suicide and Slider's superiors with the Police are pressuring him to call it suicide - thus saving valuable budget dollars. Slider isn't so keen to do that - there are too many anomalies in the case. The body proves to be that of a known lothario, Richard (Dick) Neal and as usual there are suspects aplenty to be interviewed and eliminated. However a stranger and more sinister pattern starts to show up - what is happening to the members of the Red Watch which manned Shaftesbury Street Fire Station in the 1970's?

Meanwhile Slider's marriage is coming apart and his affair with Joanna is deepening. This part I find hard to understand - Joanna's patience with him - Slider's vacillations. It doesn't convince me really. In fact I find Slider's personal life a bit of a jarring distraction to the main story.

I do like the way the story unfolds and things that are significant are often revealed early on but are only glaringly obvious in the last few pages. I do think Harrod-Eagles can write a great mystery. This is the second book in the Bill Slider mystery series, by the way - the first is Orchestrated Death.

CHIEF GIDEON DEFENDER: Tribal chairman of the Pine Lake Chippewa Band [possibly 38] reformed alcoholic and womanizer. Working for peace and treaty rights of the Pine Lake Band. Still single.

He'd let Raina go once in the name of love, but now she was back, widowed and a single parent. He would not allow her to lose her son.

Raina McKenny Defender: Widow of Jared Defender and mother of Peter Defender. A white woman on the Reservation, will possibly lose her Native American son. Raina wanted Peter to embrace his Indian culture - a culture Gideon alone could impart.

Arlen Skinner: "Nimishoomis"- grandfather to Peter Defender and suing for custody of his grandson. He wishes Peter to learn the ways of his heritage. He approaches life with a bit of wisdom and humor. When the courts step in, suddenly Gideon's secret was a secret no more.

It was unclear to me why Gideon introduced Raina to his brother, Jared - but to take 15 years to finally claim his love left me with an underlying sorrow for them. Althought the story was excellently written that is probably why I am reluctant to give it 5 stars -

There is a lot more to the story than that but I don't want to interfer with your enjoyment as the tale unfolds -- Would love to have found a spot like Gideon's secret "Falls" - untouched by man, the great destroyer - You will definitely not like the "Sportsman's Club" and all they represent.

Definitely Recommended with a --M

...It took author Stanley Weisleder ten years to diligently research and seven years to write his superb novel The Black Eagles that tells the story of these brave African American pilots who gave it all in order to defend democracy and perhaps a better life at home.

More particularly, it is a story that centres on the military experiences of Lee A. "Buddy" Archer Jr., who remains the only confirmed ace of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, a group of black pilots, who never lost an allied bomber to enemy action in 200 escort missions.

It was experiences filled with near death episodes while defending America and at the same time being subjected to cruel and racist behaviour on the part of his white comrades at arms.

Furthermore, there was the added indignity emanating from the premise proffered by the Army Air Corp bureaucracy that "Negroes were decidedly inferior, lacking in courage, superstitious and dominated by moral and character weakness." However, hard-eyed and independent, Buddy Bowman was not prepared to accept this official policy and he was successful in "bucking" the system and refuting these shameful assumptions.

What is commendable about Weisleder's writing and something he referred to in his "Acknowledgements" was the effective use of dialogue. As he indicates, it is important "to put flesh on the dialogue and shape it into a readable story."

Weisleder definitely practices what he preaches and no doubt he is a writer to watch. As a postscript, it is interesting to note that the American Armed Forces was totally segregated until 1949 when President Truman signed an Executive Order mandating integration.

The Air Force had been the first to comply followed by the Army in 1956 and the Navy and Marine Corp in 1962.

I admit to being an eclectic reader. When I was driving 7.5 hours one way on a Friday and then back again on Sunday, I needed something that went beyond music. I stopped in a truck stop and perused the audio books. The Destroyer series looked fun.

It has been sheer pleasure to listen to! I even (now that I am no longer driving so much) listen to them in the car for the shorter commute.

Cheesy? Campy? Silly? Sure! That is exactly what makes them so much fun. I was a huge fan of the old Green Hornet series and these books remind me of that. They are graphic in description for sure, but listening to Richard Sapir read them is marvelous. He is very talented.

I will be buying more of the audio books.

What a remarkable book Vicki Noble has written about having a Down Syndrome child. Although she is little heavy on the "spiritual" level, anyone who has or knows a child with DS will embrace Aaron Eagle, the true star of this show! I'm glad this was the first book I came apon when learning my niece had DS. A nice, easy read, but leaves plenty of room for reflection on how "different-ly abled" persons are treated in our world today.

This book was the first mountain man book I have ever read besides Give Your Heart to the Hawks by Win Blevins. The hero of the book is Jamie Ian McCallister, and he settles a small valley, known as McCallister's Valley, and, throoughout the book, the sittlement is attack by various outlaws, and Jamie has to go on the warpath to get back at them. The tale also includes McCallister's sons who also do the same thing. I loved this book and I think it is a great book to start out on if you are reading westerns!

When a crow steals a hen's (Ethel) egg and drops it in an eagle's nest, a chick (Dylan) is hatched to an eagle alongside two eagle chicks. Named E-awk, Dylan, like a vegetarian born to a carnivorous family, eats corn while his siblings eat fish, bugs, and snakes. Dylan proves his mettle by saving his mother, like a chicken-hawk-eagle, from the clutches of a fox, proving that not all chickens are chicken. The illustrations are clear and enjoyable, but the text has peculiar asides, such as twice mentioning that the mother eagle's name is too hard to pronounce (is this some sort of hip inside joke?)

Mallory headed west for a storry for her fathers newspaper. With her spirit & her warriors heart found the courage to follow her heart. Again this story has shown the injustices of the native American people.. Very good Ms. Barbieri Thanks from Dorothy in Ingleside ,TX.

In the best tradition of its predecessors, the fifth volume of the well-known Eagle series brings a whole set of new articles to discuss the American role in the post-Cold war world. Dealing with main trends and issues of today's U.S foreign policy, Eagle Adrift presents to the reader a very compelling evaluation of the constraints posed to strategic thinking nowadays: the increased relevance of domestic politics in the realm of international affairs. More and more, foreign policy is being invaded by internal considerations, weakening its long time vision. In all three sections of Eagle, the authors contributing to this edition will deal with this pervasive matter openly or sometimes indirectly. For those who wish to have a comprehensive understanding of American foreign policy, this Eagle is essential. Although its analysis lack some of the novelty and ingenuity that their authors ask of formulators and decision makers, Eagle provides a very good overview of America's problems in the scenario. Could our Eagle writers have been bolder? Hard to say. These are difficult transitional times where only one certainty remains: at the end of the century, in spite of flying unknown skies sometimes, the eagle still needs, and wishes, to land in all worlds

Over the years I have read many books about the Battle of Britain and of those I consider this the best. It is extremely well written and describes how the challenges were met even though the pilots were so fatigued. Some bits of humour (Come and meet 145 squadron.Nice chaps-all two of them )throughout it.Brief mention of three American pilots who later left to join the Eagle Squadron.One of them(Shorty Keogh) was so small(4ft 10in) he had to use two air cushions and his parachute pack to see through the windscreen of his Spitfire.