Hello Everyone

[Yorktown BB]

By way of introduction, I'm Bill (Yorktown BB). I retired from the US Air Force in 2004 after serving my country for 22 wonderful years. I went right from active duty to being a contractor, and plan on working for another 10 years or so. I’m married with three great kids and three temperamental Chihuahuas. I'm an avid reader and audiobook user. I usually have a couple of books going at a time and enjoy reading just about anything. I'm looking forward to being an active member of this site and hearing your reading recommendations.

 

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[SuperReaderGirl]

Welcome, Bill! We're happy to have you. I once read more than one book at a time but now if I attempt it the stories seem to combine in my mind, so I usually stick to just one story at a time. What books are you reading right now?

 

[Yorktown BB]

Hello!


I just finished a novel by Ken Follett titled, "Triple" (pages: 342 / published: 1979). This is a spy novel pure and simple. And, as the title suggests, the plot involved not a double cross but a triple cross of international proportions. His previous novels are "Eye of the Needle" and "The Key to Rebecca".

As I spend approximately six hours per week on the road, I have to have an audio book going. I just finished an audio book by Valerie Plame Wilson titled, "Fair Game; My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House". I think we all remember the stories and events surrounding Valerie and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, during the Bush/Chaney years. I highly recommend you read/hear the whole story from their perspective. NOTE: The CIA heavily redacted her manuscript to the audio book will have several “beeped out” sections, but it doesn’t take away from the story in my opinion. (ISBM 1-4165-3761-9 (10) & 978-1-4165-3761-8 (13))

I’m currently reading a novel by Michael Crichton titled, "State of Fear" (pages: 623 / published: 2004). He has also written under the pen names of John Lange, Jeffrey Hudson and Michael Douglas, with his first novel published in 1966. I believe he a total of 30 novels published at this time. The Wall Street Journal stated that State of Fear is “The Da Vinci Code with real facts…” and I fully agree. You know his most famous titles, "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park". This book is on the same level.

My “up on deck” reading list includes a three volume series published by the National Counterintelligence Center. The umbrella title for the series is “A Counterintelligence Reader” and is broken down to three volumes. They are titled, Volume One, "American Revolution to World War II" (pages: 181 / published UNK); Volume Two, "Counterintelligence in World War II" (pages: 225 / published UNK) and, Volume Three, "Post-World War II to Closing the 20th Century" (pages: 416 / published: UNK). The editor of this series was Frank J. Rafalko. This non-fiction series provides unclassified historical data relating to how counterintelligence was conducted in support of, and often times against, the United States.