Chernobyl Murders (Lazlo Horvath Thriller) Review

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(More customer reviews)I picked up this book after reading a review in the Chicago Tribune that said it was "Ludlumesque" in its pacing and detail and compared the writing to John le Carre, Tom Clancy and Len Deighton. The review was correct. It's nice now and then to find a relative unknown writer who writes with such passion. Obviously Beres knows the region and Chernobyl details and was able to put it together into an engaging thriller. The characters in the book really draw the reader in. Beres' biography indicates he has the nuclear experience via a government job. I like thrillers, mysteries and romance novels and highly recommend this book.

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In a western Ukraine wine cellar in 1985, Chernobyl engineer Mihaly Horvath discloses the unnecessary risks associated with the power plant to his brother, Kiev Militia detective Lazlo. Spawned by a desire to protect his family, Lazlo investigates-irritating his superiors, drawing the attention of a CIA operative, raising the hackles of an old KGB major, and ultimately discovering his brother's secret affair with a Chernobyl technician, Juli Popovics. After the explosion, the Ukraine is not only blanketed with deadly radiation, but also becomes a killing ground involving pre-perestroika factions in disarray, a Soviet government on its last legs, and madmen hungry for power. With a poisoned environment at their backs and a killer snapping at their heels, Lazlo and Juli flee for their lives-and their love-in this engrossing political thriller.

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The DeValera Deception Review

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(More customer reviews)There are only a few authors who can create readable, believable historical fiction, and there are even fewer who can create a page-turning thriller within that genre.
The father and son writing team of Michael and Patrick McMenamin are definitely the exception. With The De Valera Deception, the first book in what looks to be an amazing series, the McMenamin's have recreated the robust world of the late 1920's just before the Depression. This is a world of gin, jazz, the Industrial Revolution, women's suffrage and the beginning of some modern day world-wide conspiracies.
Bourke Cockran is summoned by Winston Churchill to investigate how the Irish Republican Army is getting arms from the German government through channels in the United States. With the help of Mattie McGary, a photojournalist for Hearst and the god-daughter of Churchill, they embark on a non-stop thrill filled adventure from London to New York and places in between.
A Germany left bitter after WWI seeks to rebuild its former glory by any means, including a clandestine partnership with the Soviet Union. The beginning of modern spy warfare, international terrorism, and the formation of new European alliances keep Cockran and Mattie barely ahead of the bullets and the law.
Even though they are attracted to each other, Cockran is still grieving over the loss of his wife who was murdered in the Civil War that erupted in Ireland in 1922. The primary reason he took the job form Churchill is that he wants revenge for his wife at any cost.
This thriller is peppered with Soviet assassins, IRA terrorists, government bureaucracy, legendary historical figures, and notorious gangsters that give the reader an intense and intriguing read.
The DeValera Deception is an excellent novel, woven with rich historical detail that breaths vitality and life into the people of an often overlooked era.


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