Book Review – The Shadow Patrol
Book Review: The Shadow Patrol by Alex Berenson
VJ Books Announces New York Times Bestselling Author Michael Palmer as February 2012 Author of the Month
Writer and physician Michael Palmer is the February 2012 Author of the Month at VJ Books with the release of his new medical and political thriller — Oath of Office.
About Oath of Office
What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage?
When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself.
The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after John’s medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and deserved to be practicing medicine and fought hard for his license to be restored. After hearing the news of the violent outburst, Lou is in shock like everyone else, but mostly he’s incredulous. And when he begins (more…)
George Pelecanos and Derek Strange Tell “What It Was”
Press Release
Bestselling crime novelist George Pelecanos releases his latest Derek Strange novel, What It Was.
Tualatin, Oregon, January 1, 2012 – Since 2001, Derek Strange–the hard headed private detective–has faced a cadre of clever bad guys as he navigates the streets and culture that is Washington D.C.
About What It Was
In Pelecanos’s newest book, What It Was, it is 1972 and Derek Strange has recently left the D.C. police force and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank “Hound Dog” Vaughn is still on the force. Helping a new client recover a ring of some sentimental value, Strange steps into Vaughn’s case, where a local druggie has been murdered.
Soon both Strange and Vaughn are in hot pursuit of a cold-blooded killer known on the street as ‘Red Fury,” so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives. Red Fury doesn’t care who he has to kill – or cross – to get what he wants, and as the violence grows and the stakes get higher, strange and Vaughn know that the only way to catch their man is to do it ‘their way.’
George Pelecanos talks about Derek Strange on YouTube. Click here to watch the video.
“I am pleased to see Pelecanos return to the streets that earned him the Gumshoe Award in 2003,” tells John Hutchinson of VJ Books, “Hell to Pay is one of my favourite books, and I appreciate how What It Was tells some of the back story of how Derek Strange got started.” “It’s a great background for the other Strange novels, Right as Rain and Soul Circus,” adds Hutchinson. (more…)
“Bad Santa Sale” Now On!
Dear Friends and Book Lovers,
Each year we consider the gifts not given, the unmet wants, the hidden desires . . . all left unfulfilled because Santa was not up to the task.
For all of you who were not naughty, but nice, and still didn’t receive that new book you were planning to read over the holiday break, we offer our annual Bad Santa Sale!
Through New Year’s Day, the finest from our shelves to yours at amazing discounts.
Choose from over 500 titles from every genre: action-adventure, mystery-suspense, scifi-horror, fantasy, thrillers, and more.
Happy New Year!
John and Virginia
VJ Books
Signed 1st Editions of “Inheritance”, “The Drop” and “The Lost Angel” Now Shipping!
Signed 1st Editions Just Arrived and Shipping!
- Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance
- Michael Connelly’s The Drop
- Javier Sierra’s The Lost Angel
John Sure Knows How to Pick ‘Em!
Publishers Weekly just published its “Best Books 2011″ edition. Five of our picks topped the Mystery/Thriller category. Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson, A Simple Act of Violence by R. J. Ellory, Field Grey by Philip Kerr, The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman, and A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny dominate the list of nine selected books. By any measure, five of nine is a respectible showing. We still have signed copies of these titles in stock . . . but hurry, once the word gets out they’ll be gone. - John
Signed 1st Editions of “A Christmas Homecoming”, “V is for Vengeance” and More Now Shipping!
Just Arrived and Shipping!
- Anne Perry’s A Christmas Homecoming
- Sue Grafton’s V is for Vengeance
- John Grisham’s The Litigators
- Alan Bradley’s I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
Alan Jacobson’s “The 7th Victim” Set for TNT!
Heads up everyone! Alan just signed a deal with Turner Network Television (TNT) to produce a two-hour TV movie of The 7th Victim. TNT has selected a screenwriter and plans to begin production early 2012.
The 7th Victim is the first novel in the Special Agent Karen Vail series.
