Books by William Dietrich
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review 1: First off, this book isn't high literature. This is not high brow reading and I haven't reviewed it as such. This book is simply a damn good story, in the style of Indiana Jones with a distinctly modern twist. As with the best Indiana Jones stories its got evil nazi's wanting to ...
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review 1: I've read Napoleon's Pyramids and The Rosetta Key, the first two books in this Ethan Gage series. Both were excellent adventures. I liked this book as well, but not quite as much. It has a Hamlet-like ending with few, besides Gage himself, left alive to tell the tale. Still, his ...
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review 1: I really enjoy reading about Ethan Gage's adventures. The best thing I can say about them is that they are always different. The only common theme is that Ethan gets out of a lot of scrapes by pure dumb luck. Much better than reading a Dan Brown/Robert Langdon story, which I k...
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review 1: I did not read books 1-4 in this series so my review is based on reading book five only. Liked it, swashbuckling adventure, Pirates and spies and napoleonic wars. My kind of genre. Style was odd, hard to get used to at first. Protagonist was annoying at times but after you became...
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review 1: This book was excitement and adventure from beginning to end and a darned good example of why William Dietrich is one of my favorite authors. Central character Ethan Gage is lucky, witty, enterprising and humerous all of which makes for a wild, rollicking good read. He gets int...