Alex Benedict Novel A Talent for War, Book 1, (Paperback)

from SaintBrevity

Much like the other books by this author, A Talent For War reads very quietly, but moves along no less for that. A dealer in historical artifacts inherits his uncle's estate, and learns that his uncle died on the cusp of an amazing discovery about a war hero from an interstellar war a few centuri...

from phillybrarian

The first Alex Benedict novel. I'd read two later ones and was interested to see how Alex got his start. As a librarian, I can't help but love a main character that can spend days slogging through primary sources and researching obscure and rare resources, but still willing to take a one man caps...

from librisissimo

Substance: A mystery from "the past" about a heroic military commander, and what really happened in a crucial part of "the war". That story is interesting enough, but it is buried in overwhelming layers of names and "history" and "geography" that is meaningless because it has no context in realit...

from downdb

Good, but not great. The book takes place in the future, and the characters jump between planets using spaceships, but the meat of the story is mostly a historical mystery. That's fine--I enjoyed it well enough--but don't go in expecting flat-out science fiction. I think I was expecting more of a...

from iftyzaidi

This is the first book by Jack McDevitt that I have read. On the whole it was an engaging but not enthralling read. The universe McDevitt sets up is an interesting one, with an interesting history and political scene. The story unfolds within this backdrop, as the protaganist follows the clues le...