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The Road to Rome_ A Forgotten L - Ben Kane
SUMMARY: The third novel in The Forgotten Legion trilogy takes the main protagonists from North Africa back to Rome in the build-up to the assassination of Julius Caesar. Having su... -
Riven - Jerry B. Jenkins
From Publishers WeeklyIn this painfully slow story, Jenkins (Left Behind) builds two protagonists' story lines-each from different generations and different walks of life, yet dest... -
Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
From Publishers WeeklyLike its roguish protagonists, Lynch's colorful sequel to 2006's The Lies of Locke Lamora is charming, unpredictable and fast on its feet and stands surprisi.... -
Powder Burn - Carl Hiaasen; Bill Montalbano
From Library JournalPublished in 1984, 1981, and 1982, respectively, these novels feature action, intrigue, violence, and murder. In the Hitchcock vein, they also portray protagoni... -
Iron Lace - Emilie Richards
From Publishers Weekly Named for the trademark elaborate cast-iron grillwork of many New Orleans homes, Iron Lace is more aptly suited to describe the protagonists' lives in Richar... -
Hit List - Lawrence Block
Few mystery authors have a stable of protagonists as uniformly appealing as Lawrence Block's. Whether Block's taking the reader into PI Matthew Scudder's world of dimly lit bars... -
Brief Encounters With Che Gueva - Ben Fountain
The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding ... -
A Bit on the Side - William Trevor
From Publishers WeeklyThe protagonists of this haunting, emotionally bleak collection of stories—a new widow confessing to two surprised Legion of Mary sisters the secrets of her m...