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Recently read include:

- Joe Ledger: the lost files by Jonathan Maberry. Shoot'em short stories featuring Maberry's character, Joe Ledger, fighting zombies, terrorists, and an international assassin.
- Ghosts of Belfast by Neville Stuart. Former IRA soldier is haunted by the 12 people he killed during the Troubles. IRA guy starts killing other IRA guys to make the ghosts go away. I skipped this when it came out in 2009 because the ghost stuff sounded stupid, it wasn't.
- Plugged by Eoin Colfer. Fun novel with a former Irish Army soldier now working as a doorman in a low-rent casino in New Jersey. Trouble and laughs ensues.
- Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli. More crime drama by Piccirilli.
- The Consummata by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Great stuff. Late 1960s with thief Morgan the Raider on the run in Miami from the CIA when he decides to help an anti-Castro group recover several thousand dollars stolen by a Cuban agent.

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I've spent the past couple of years exploring hefty legal novels (D.W. Buffa a favorite author); but after over six years of hearing jail inmates (and a couple of deputies) talk about Louis L'Amour novels, I thought I'd give them a try. Being a fan of certain classic TV Westerns--like Gunsmoke--I was pleasantly surprised by some of the L'Amour stories, and they made for a fun diversion. Mostly now I know what L'Amour's work is like and why people find it so appealing.

But give me courtroom drama and legal intrigue every time. Love it!

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"American Rifle, a Biography", by Alexander Rose; "The Good War", by Studs Terkel; "Cititzen Soldiers", by Stephen Ambrose. and various and sundry DIY law books by the NoLo Press.

The last plain fun, mindless reads were "Duma Key", by Stephen King, and "World War Z", by Max Brooks.

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I've spent the past couple of years exploring hefty legal novels (D.W. Buffa a favorite author); but after over six years of hearing jail inmates (and a couple of deputies) talk about Louis L'Amour novels, I thought I'd give them a try. Being a fan of certain classic TV Westerns--like Gunsmoke--I was pleasantly surprised by some of the L'Amour stories, and they made for a fun diversion. Mostly now I know what L'Amour's work is like and why people find it so appealing.

But give me courtroom drama and legal intrigue every time. Love it!

IF you like his books, try the Walking Drum. It is not a western, but is set in Europe and the Middle East during the dark ages. He was planning a sequel, but died before completing it.
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