Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. These books evoke either something underground or undercover in literal or figurative senses. Maybe we’re feeling a …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. Big thanks to Cannon Beach Books of Cannon Beach, OR for the idea. So many of the bestsellers had blue elements, I had to be a little subjective when making …
A TRAVEL FEATURE BY JIM HARRIS I am 75 years old and a retired book professional with nearly forty years of book selling for publishers, as a retailer and for a book wholesaler. Most recently, I have been a volunteer at a regional writers’ association and written book reviews. My wife and I completed a two …
I was looking through my bookcase for something to read recently and discovered Daniel Silva’s second book, The Mark of the Assassin. This contemporary spy thriller features Michael Osbourne, a former field agent, who now rides a desk in the Langley, VA headquarters of the CIA. His mission is to uncover and neutralize an assassin …
I just finished his mammoth (724 pages) WWII thriller, The Unlikely Spy, by Daniel Silva, who has been favorably compared to Ken Follett and Robert Harris as a writer of spy fiction. The story takes place in the U.S., U.K. and Germany from the late 1930s to the landings in Normandy. Some of the characters—Winston Churchill and German spymaster Admiral William Canaris—are …
