ScoobyDoo555

As topic really.

Want to take some ebooks with me (got ipad & kindle). Open to ideas on some good reads whilst lazing around the pool.

Type of stuff I like:-

Good spy novels - Craig Thomas, Robert Ludlum. Anything with espionage, military hardware.
Sci-Fi.
Motorsport books.


Any good recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

Dan

stevebt

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If you look on Amazons top 100 books you will see quite a few military type books. I have a few on my iPad but can't remember the names of them.

ScoobyDoo555

Thanks Stevebt

hpoolsteve

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Log onto goodreads website. Type in what you like an it suggests books for you to try

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

Isaac Asmiov - Foundation series

The Trooper 1815

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Justin Cronin - The Passage and The Twelve.

Aaron1978

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Lenny McLean- the guvnor tapes

ScoobyDoo555

interesting results thank you

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Anything by Lee Child. Set mostly in the USA, written by an Englishman.

Also try Nelson DeMille, and James Barrington. The former writes about the USA, the latter a UK agent.

Markus

Where's the Kobo love?

The Quarry - Iain Banks (yeah, I know, it's not an "M" book, but it's his last book, so worth a read)

The Hydrogen Sonata - Iain M Banks (his last sci-fi novel, published last year0

The Long War - Terry Pratchett / Stephen Baxter. The sequel to The Long World.

Viva La Madness - J.J Connolly - Sequel to Layer Cake (not really on your list of genre's, but both are worth a read)

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hodgy0_2

just re-reading Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre - on my Kindle

superb and can not put it down, even though I know the ending

Day of the Jackal is a cracking book too

both have long words in, so not for everyone

pimmo2000

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I'm on the 3rd of six books in the Zombie fall out range, I'm enjoying them.

dpb

Nook..30 pound

Markus

Big thumbs up on Tinker, along with The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People, which make up the Karla trilogy. The BBC did a recent audio series on the trilogy, and is well worth listening through. Though not ebook related, the BBC series' are worth a watch, and the recent film isn't bad either.


Have you read any Tom Clancy? Ok so perhaps not "spy" per-se, but John Kelly does get up to some covert antics, and there are some military type things in there too.

It doesn't fit into the categories, but I've got to recommend Jeff Noon's Vurt (plus Pollen, Automated Alice, and Nymphomation - not out in eBook yet), it's a little odd, but it is one of my favourite books.

hodgy0_2

a bit nerdy, but I actually watched the brilliant Tinker Tailor BBC series in tandem with reading the book, it is pretty accurate scene by scene - even the dialogue is the same in most cases

Carlh

world war z by max brookes. huge story covering lots of mini stories .