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“The Patsy” by Brian O’Sullivan – Conspiracy of the Dying Breed

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Brian O’Sullivan has a real knack for writing thrilling stories which not only entertain, but also educate and push us to think about various aspects of modern life, namely politics.

In The Patsy O’Sullivan returns to the helm to tell the tale of a dying self-made billionaire who concocts a scheme to murder two prominent politicians he deeply despises.

However, he gets in a bit over his head when the titular patsy of his plan, a young and extremely skilled shooter by the name of Aidan Gentry starts to come up with some plans of his own.

“The 49th Mystic” by Ted Dekker – Prophecy for the Blind

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Ted Dekker has always sought to push his novels far beyond the confines of the ordinary and expected, something he has once again achieved with his standalone book, The 49 th Mystic.

Our main character is a blind little girl whose life takes a turn for the strange after a botched operation to restore her eyesight; dreams of another world begin to fill her reality.

It becomes unclear to her to which of the two worlds is in fact real, but she does know a prophecy awaits her in the dream, one which will plunge both worlds into eternal darkness should she fail to fulfil it.

“Sick to Death” by Greg Levin – Dying to Kill… Literally

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Greg Levin has a true aptitude for coming up with unique and original premises to drive the stories of his books, and Sick to Death is a perfect example of his outside-the-box thinking.

In this book, we follow a trio of unusual vigilante superheroes: terminally-ill support group patients.

They take to the streets and declare war on all the criminal scum, now blindly fleeing them in terror. However, when one of the trio takes their crime-fighting prowess to questionable lengths, hundreds of people are suddenly in mortal danger.

“The Old Bridge” by Andrew Turpin – Inexhaustible Crimes of War

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Andrew Turpin introduced us to Joe Johnson, a war crimes investigator with a penchant for some of the most extravagant cases known to man, hunting in his last time out after a lost Nazi train full of gold.

In his second adventure, titled The Old Bridge, Joe Johnson sets out to find some documents lost twenty years ago from the president’s office in Sarajevo for they contain some incriminating links to the White House.

Needless to say, the chase after these papers turns bloody and troublesome as a bigger conspiracy looms above Johnson and more parties than he expected have a vested interest in it.

“The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell” by Robert Dugoni – The Devil Boy’s Agony

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Robert Dugoni is without a doubt one of the modern giants of literature, his novels earning him fame around the globe. Though he is generally accustomed to writing thrillers, he went in a different direction with The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, presenting us with a profound drama.

The story is centred on the titular Sam, a boy who had the misfortune of being born with ocular albinism, branding him as an outcast from his earlier years. Now a few decades later, Sam looks back upon his life, uncertain of anything anymore, armed only with the will to make sense of the path he had to walk.