Alton L. Gansky
This is the least satisfying of Gansky’s “J. D. Stanton” mysteries. Stanton is called out of retirement to investigate the disappearance of an entire town, a town that happens to be part of a top secret government project. Despite some good action scenes where commandos battle it deep underground, this is a rather dull book.
Alton L. Gansky
J. D. Stanton, the Christian Dirk Pitt is confronted with a possessed World War II U Boat that appears - in perfect condition - on the beach near modern-day San Diego.
As Steven Spielberg knows, you can’t miss with a plot than combines Nazis and demons.
Lawrence Osborne
This is a collection of portraits of people with Apserger’s Syndrome (AS) sprinkled with background information on AS and autism. The profiles are interesting, but overall the book lacks structure and focus.
Alton Gansky
A retired naval officer - J. D. Stanton - takes a crew of troubled teens on a sailing adventure in hopes of straightening them out. They get more than they bargained for when a good-as-new 1907 battleship shows up. This is a fair time travel story, engrossing but ultimately unsatisfying: the conclusion doesn’t live up to the setup.
Gansky’s books are billed as “Christian mysteries”. The religious element is present but kept low-key and the book comes across as a pleasantly cleaned-up version of a Clive Cussler novel.
David Denby
This is the painfully honest tale of man who, torn by his wife’s decision to leave him, his desire to keep his home, and too much exposure to CNBC during the dot-com boom, dove into the stock market bubble only to have it burst under him. People who, like Denby, lost their shirts in the dot-bust will find this a painful read; people like me, whose conservatism kept them from speculating despite seeing others profit greatly for a while, will find in Denby’s story justification for their caution.
The book is good. It could have been great had Denby dug a little deeper and put a little more detail into his own story rather than padding it out with stories of a couple of dot-charlatans.
C.S. Lewis
This is the third book in Lewis’ space trilogy, but this time the action is on Earth as Dr. Ransom, transformed by his experience on Venus, leads an unlikely band of Englishmen, women, and animals in the fight against evil as represented by an oh-so-modern band of technocrats knows as N.I.C.E. The story gives Lewis plenty of opportunity to discourse on good, evil, science, marriage, and other things viewed in the light of Christian theology.
This is the meatiest book of the trilogy. It’s also the most cautionary, for in the modern world evil may well - does - appear in the guise of organizations claiming to be devoted to improving society.
