If you've ever watched the TV series 24, you know what it's like to watch a thriller. I cannot think of another program that is as relentless with conflict as 24. From the first tick of the clock to the last, the action, the tension, the good and evil, rage on at a breakneck…

   Some authors prefer to create villains. Writers can make them as evil as they choose. If you want to read about some of the worst, I suggest you take a look at "Eenie" in Dean Koontz's From the Corner of His Eye or any of the bizarre and intricate bad dudes in the Patrick Bowers…

     That seemingly never ending battle between good and evil rages on in life and literature. Yesterday in my review of Thin Line by L. T. Ryan, I mentioned the concept of even within the "good" people the potential for horrible evil resides. Christians know human beings are not "good" as some would have us all believe.…

                                   A popular concept for thriller authors is contemplating the difference between good and evil. Steven James in his Patrick Bowers Series dares to speculate the availability of evil resides in even "good" people - as in the potential to commit an evil act even when they know it's wrong. However, the opposite is rarely true.…

  You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil;    with you the wicked cannot dwell. The arrogant cannot stand in your presence;    you hate all who do wrong. You destroy those who tell lies;    bloodthirsty and deceitful men    the Lord abhors.   Psalm 5:4-6 (NIV)

                         I believe I've said it before, but two things you can count on when reading a Chris Fabry novel are quality prose and anything but ordinary storylines. Every Waking Moment by Chris Fabry, published by Tyndale Fiction, keeps to those standards. Treha Langsam has no memory of a mom and dad or little else to…

                             Of course I'd like to be jaunting off to a hot tropical place, but I'm merely traveling to Novel Rocket. Come and join me as I discuss a coversation I had with a reader. Would appreciate your thoughts.   Father, please bless those who bless others. Help me to be faithful to you and…

                                      Those who visit here regularly know there will be novel reviews posted. There will be books I love and books I don't and many – possibly even most – of them somewhere in between. Those of us who read a lot of novels and write reviews decide if and what we can recommend…

                                  As you can see, I appear to be hooked on L. T. Ryan's Jack Noble Novels. Quick to read, fast-moving stories, these are great summer reads for thriller fans who don't mind the secretive operations of high-level security, espionage, anti-terrorist, political, and military types of stories. Jack Noble is a love him-or-hate him…

                            If you've ever read an Amazon one-star review, you know what I'm talkin' about. Some readers can be downright mean and nasty. If I can only give a book a one-star review, I'm not going to waste my time making it public – other than here on my blog where I will give ample…