Saturday, April 13, 2013

Free Kindle Books 4-13-13

From the top 100 free list

A Clean Kill in Tokyo (previously published as Rain Fall) remains on the list as #1.

Collapse (New America-Book One) falls to #15 on the list.Still a good bet IMO.

Bad Wolf (Bad Wolf Chronicles: Book 1)

"...it consumed me...like watching a horror movie" --IngaKS

"Very intense" -- Karen West

Detective Lara Mendes’s hard work finally pays off when she gets the chance to join the homicide detail. There’s only one catch; she has to partner up with a cop no one wants to work with.

John Gallagher is a veteran homicide detective who loves stomping bad guys and hates partners. When the Lieutenant saddles him with this green kid named Mendes, his first reaction is to ditch her but a call comes in about a body on the river bank and the rotation says they’re up.

What they find are human remains, mutilated and partially devoured. Their investigation reveals a killer stalking the city with a pack of vicious, feral dogs.
And the suspect believes he is a werewolf.

But this is Portland, where crazy bastards outnumber normal ones ten to one. Except there’s another catch. The crazy werewolf guy? He isn’t crazy...

5 star:(16)
4 star:(37)
3 star:(6)
2 star:(1)
1 star:(1)

[#18. Seems like a fairly creative twist on werewolves. Some of the lesser rated reviews mention writing errors being an issue. Like many self published books it may well suffer from badly needing a pass through by an editor.]

The Mating (Law of the Lycans) remains on the list at #25.

65 Proof - Jack Daniels and Other Thriller Stories remains on the list at #28.

The Keeping (Sequel to The Mating) remains on the list at #31.

Locked Up In La Mesa remains on the list at #35.

Betrayed: Days of the Rogue a Law of the Lycans holdover at #36.

Bonded (Prequel to The Mating) remains on the list at #37.

The Finding (Law of the Lycans #3) (The Law of the Lycans) still on the list at #43.

101 best jokes remains on the list at #65.

The Anvil of the Craftsman (Jon's Trilogy)

A doctoral candidate in Theological Studies accepts recruitment by a friend in the U.S. State Department for an initiative to the most troublesome province in 2006 Iraq. The many challenges of nation building expand the mission from diplomacy to a survival situation as local and international interests position themselves to oppose a State Department initiative: one vital to progress in an uncertain theater.

Terrorism and counter-terror operations threaten to keep the team from leaving the relative safety of Baghdad. Until, that is, a former USAF Special Tactics operative hunting the men who want to kill them draws duty as their protector. The simple questions posed during a tribal council threaten provincial and regional stability; the conclusions reached explode into a clash of faith, loyalty, schism and betrayal that will help shape the future of two nations.

The Anvil of the Craftsman, the debut novel by author Dale Amidei, will be appreciated by fans of a broad range of fiction; from aficionados of the haunting themes of Ernest Hemingway to readers of the tightly woven plots of Tom Clancy and popular titles of authors like Vince Flynn, David Baldacci, W.E.B. Griffin and Richard Marcinko.

The Anvil of the Craftsman is presented in its Kindle Edition with a fully functional Table of Contents and navigation controls (NCX). Approx. 93,000 words / 312pp. print length.

[#81. I almost skipped past this one. Nation building has mostly failed pretty miserably especially when having anything to do with the State Department, but it has 23 reviews - all 5-star. Hard to fake that many 5-star reviews, but not impossible. The top three reviews I looked at appeared to be the typical paid for fake reviews that self published authors often get, but some of the rest seemed more genuine. Be warned.]


Tigers in Normandy

This combat chronicle of the German Tiger tank--one of World War II's best--during the Normandy campaign (June to August 1944), appears for the first time in English. New details on famous tank ace Michael Wittmann are revealed, as well as other WWII must-knows like how the Tiger performed against Allied armor, particularly the Sherman. Maps, orders of battle, period photos, and then-and-now shots make this the go-to book on the subject.

[#87. Has just one 4-star and 1 5-star review.]



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