Free Kindle Books 3-21-13

From the top 100 free list

The Da Vinci Code: A Novel (Robert Langdon)

Featuring an excerpt from Dan Brown’s forthcoming new novel, Inferno, on sale May 14, 2013

#1 Worldwide Bestseller—More Than 81 Million Copies Sold

As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown's novel is a thrilling masterpiece—from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion.

5 star: (1,765)
4 star: (724)
3 star: (567)
2 star: (440)
1 star: (756)

[Been on the list several days now.]


The Shortcut

Don and Jean Beaumont arrived at their beach house for the weekend as they have done many times before. Entertaining their neighbors for dinner they ran low on ice. Jean ran to the local covenience store, parked her car and disappeared. Don, hired Prestige Investigators to assist the local sheriff deputy. They discovered women have been disappearing at an alarming rate. With those facts in hand, they set out to find a connection to all the vanished women. What they discovered will stun you.

5 star:(25)
4 star:(3)
3 star:(2)
2 star:(0)
1 star:(2)

[Was on the list yesterday too.]



Revenge of the Taken (Humble Walker Book 1)

Every year in America, thousands of women disappear never to be seen again, and one man has dedicated his life to finding them...

Humble Walker has an amazing gift rooted deep in an ancient Navajo legend. It's a power that may be as limitless as his imagination, if he could only learn how to control it.

Waging a clandestine war in the shadows of the New York City underground, Humble has taken on an unassuming drug research facility, abducting women for nefarious mind control experiments. They're powerful, corrupt, and have perfected a brain-altering narcotic like the world has never seen.

Beautiful and spunky Kat Carson is the latest victim. Taken from her comfortable suburban life, she represents a tipping point in the ongoing battle, but all she wants is her life back. With the help of Humble and a small band of refugees, she has a fighting chance.

Even with the best plans, things can go horribly wrong. Unthinkable betrayal derails their efforts and backs them into a corner. But, that is the one place you don't want to put Humble Walker.

5 star:(9)
4 star:(5)
3 star:(0)
2 star:(0)
1 star:(0)

[I downloaded this yesterday and started reading it last night. I only read a few chapters. Not that great so far. It may be that it picks up as it goes along though.]

Yellow Green Beret : Stories of an Asian-American Stumbling Around U.S. Army Special Forces


For Special Forces officer-turned-writer Chester Wong, being a Green Beret was tough business. Okay, there were a few laughs—in fact, there were countless random acts of hilarity, but maybe it’s how Wong looks at life that makes the difference. In Yellow Green Beret: Stories of an Asian-American Stumbling around U.S. Army Special Forces, one thing is certain: becoming an Asian American Green Beret is a calling only the wild should answer.

Whether or not you’re in the Army, there’s a whole lot of adventure and a whole lot of “who’d have thoughts” and “imagine thats” in this military memoir. With short stories like “Johnnie Walker Brown,” “Wily Filipino Cell Phone Thieves,” and “Sniper School: Extending the Range of Personality Lethality,” Wong pokes fun at the ironies of special operations combat, the idiosyncrasies of military life, and the absurdities of life on the frontline; more often than not he heckles his own harebrained ways. Each vignette is a standalone anecdote; sometimes there’s a lesson, sometimes it’s just for a laugh. He reminisces his West Point and Special Forces training, working with various militaries in Southeast Asia, and serving in Iraq and the Philippines, as well as general tidbits of military life. With a self-deprecating humor style, he leaves readers rolling with laughter and reflection on his unique observations and lessons learned from a path not often taken, which is good since this memoir is the first in a three-part collection.

5 star:(67)
4 star:(9)
3 star:(3)
2 star:(1)
1 star:(1)