Eagle - Mamer

Advantages: Tons of action, great story, brilliant acting.
Disadvantages: None

...to a building and panics when she sees that her son, who is on a train heading to Washington, is being filmed in real-time. When the voice on the cell phone tells Rachel that her son's train will be derailed unless she does exactly as she's told, Rachel does what any mother would do... she obeys the voice. Meanwhile, Jerry is allowed to make a call while in FBI custody, but instead of reaching his parents, his call is hijacked by the same woman who had called him on his cell phone, and she helps him escape. On the run, Jerry is forced to obey the woman who has become his worst nightmare, and that's when he and Rachel are thrown together... 'Eagle Eye' is a fascinating film... albeit a bit slow at the start. Give it a few minutes, and you'll be glad you did because it's going to take you on an amazing rollercoaster ride crammed... Read review

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Advantages: A good idea
Disadvantages: Overly descriptive and complicated in places

...After having read Russel's second book about Jan Fabel, Brother Grimm, I wasn't overly keen on reading anything else by this author. I had enjoyed Brother Grimm in places but found it to be disappointing over all. However, somehow I still ended up with Blood Eagle in my hands. This is the first book in the series of Jan Fabel, Erster Kriminalhauptkommissar (Principal Chief Commissar) with the Hamburg Police murder squad. The book starts with an email from "Son of Sven" to Fabel which makes it clear that this Son of Sven character is a murderer and who is taunting Fabel personally with the notion that this is only the beginning and that he will not stop until he is made to do so. So far so run of the mill crime book. However, the plot quickly thickens as Fabel starts to investigate the brutal and apparently ritualistic murders... Read review

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Advantages: A good tale, good on historical detail
Disadvantages: Some of the characters are fairly weak

...(unjustified) reputation? Did they simply get gradually eroded as their men were co-opted by other garrisons for more urgent duties en route? Or is it simply that it is the records of their subsequent actions that have been lost and not the Legion itself at all? We will never know. Rosemary Sutcliff's book is not an attempt at a serious consideration of the likely explanations. It is a flight of fancy, based upon the myth of the missing Legion, which she ties to an excavated wingless "Eagle" found at Silchester. She supposes that this desecrated standard originally belonged to the Ninth Legion and spins a tale as to how it may have come to rest where it lay: it is a plausible tale, but an improbable one. "The Eagle" centres on the youthful Marcus Flavius Aquila, posted at own request to England, where he hopes to learn something... Read review

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