Recommend a fiction book for me

Status
Not open for further replies.
Plum Island - Nelson DeMille

Teaser - John Corey is a cop recovering from .44 gun shot wounds when he gets involved with a murder investigation out his jurisdiction.
Guns, murder mystery, Plum Island, and going back in history to Pirates and Captain Kidd...
 
You want a lot of gunplay read anything in James Axler's "Deathlands" series. It certainly isn't great literature but there is a LOT of gunplay. Most of William Johnstones stuff falls in the same catagory, lots of gunplay. I read one ocassionally just for a change of pace.

Just finished Stephen Hunter's latest about Bob Lee. No gunplay. It was OK but not up to his other novels.
 
You could just go "light" and pick up about any of Louis L'amours stuff, A few of them have some good "gun stuff"in them. If you wanted to make a poilitical statement you could always pick up a copy of Curious George And The Man In The Big yellow Hat
 
As others have mentioned, Time to Hunt by Stephan Hunter is great. The used an 'adjusted' version of the first third of a Time to Hunt to set the stage at the beginning of the movie "Shooter".
 
The Dark Tower series by Steven King. Its like the ultimate SHTF meets Wild Wild West
 
The Dark Tower series by Steven King. Its like the ultimate SHTF meets Wild Wild West
Click to expand...

That or The Stand also by Stephen King, end of the world good vs evil.
 
The Master Sniper by Stephen Hunter... This was an absolutely amazing book. If you are a WWII buff or just a war buff in general you will enjoy it. Lots of gun play!
 
Vince Flynn.

Start with:

Term Limits (1997)

Then the Mitch Rapp novels:

Transfer of Power (1999)
The Third Option (2000)
Separation of Power (2001)
Executive Power (2002)
Memorial Day (2004)
Consent to Kill (2005)
Act of Treason (2006)
Protect and Defend (2007)

Mitch Rapp is kind of like Jack Bauer with an international mission. Vince actually did some writing for "24" back when it was good.
Click to expand...

Excellent Books, I am on the Protect and Defend. As for the reference to 24, its a bit more gun/tactical oriented as well as a lot more real world. I would recommend these books to anyone who enjoys fiction, but especially to those interested in military, politics, or firearms.
 
Riders of the Purple Sage By Zane Grey. It doesn't have a ton of shooting but it was said to be the greatest western of all time.
 
Definetly go get Monster Hunter International. However, you won't want to put it down so it won't last too long so pick up all of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I was hooked from the first line of the Gunslinger all the way to the ending of The Dark Tower. Song of Susanna was a little weird and definetly my least favorite of the series but it is still worth a read (especially since if you don't, the next books won't make any since.)
 
James Axler's Deathlands, of late, isn't really "the High Road" with far too much perversion and cruelty to be palatable.

Outlanders, however, has the same noble spirit and excitement inspired by Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon and Terry and the Pirates, with strong shots of the good storytelling and characterization of I, Spy (the TV show, not the movie), and the fantasy/science fiction adventure of Indianna Jones, Star Trek or Stargate SG-1.
 
I'm biased, but I do honestly think that my first novel is a great read. See my sig line for the link to Amazon.
 
MHI is a great read and if you get sucked into good books like I do you will be reading for 14 hours straight which will give you an hour and a half to sleep before going to work monday morning.
Farnhams Freehold or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein, Ringo's stuff is great fun as is Michael Z. Williamson's. Another guy who's stuff I buy in hardcover is Richard K. Morgan. His first novel was Altered Carbon, it's a really cool blend of sci fi and spy noir.

Other good stuff; Randy Wayne White, Andrew Vachss, Barry Eisler, Robert Crais, Lee Childs, Michael Marshall, Stephen Hunter, Dennis Lehane, Michael Crow, Robert Parker, John D McDonald are all great mystery/suspense writers.
 
There are some good WWII memoirs that read as easily as novels and are far more impressive than fiction:

"With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge, a Marine K/3/5 60 mm mortarman who fought at Peleliu and Okinawa
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419195/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204866326&sr=8-1

Any and all of Donald Burgett's memoirs, he was a paratrooper in 101st Airborne from Normandy to the end of the war. Start with:
http://www.amazon.com/Currahee-Screaming-Eagle-at-Normandy/dp/0440236304/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204866377&sr=1-2

Worth every penny.
 
The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout.

I've heard good things about MHI, but reading this thread, now so have you. ;) I'm looking forward to reading it myself eventually.


-T.

EDIT: I was always a fan of Anthem by Ayn Rand and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, but I assumed we were taking about gun-oriented books.
 
Last edited:
+1 for "The Road"

It's as grim a post-apocalyptic tale as I've ever read. I resisted posting a review since I only recall three firearms in it, but it makes just about everything else out there in that genre read like a fairy tale.

You may not "enjoy" it, but you will appreciate it.
 
I'm trying to recall a trilogy I read by a writer for gun magazines. The first one involves a father with an interesting past who breaks up a bank robbery in North Carolina and hilarity and gun play ensues.
Click to expand...

I finally remembered this series. The books are Flash of Red, A Whisper of Black, and Dwelling in the Gray by Clay Harvey.
 
Any of Walter Mosley's Easy Rollins novels, like "Devil in a Red Dress" or "Little Yellow Dog". Good '40s, '50s and '60s atmosphere, suspense, social commentary and action.
 
Point of Impact by Steven Hunter.


Awesome book, one my favorites, and obviously many other people's on this sight.

It's the book that the movie "Shooter" with Mark Wahlberg was based on. The movie wasn't as good, but you'll tear thru this book, it's so good.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

D
  • Locked
Books like Nightcrawler and Correia stories?
2
Replies
30
Views
2K
MudPuppy
M
N
  • Locked
Favorite fictional or sci-fi weapon?
2 3 4 5 6
Replies
149
Views
5K
KC
K
N
  • Locked
Writing gunfights is hard
2
Replies
41
Views
4K
Correia
C
C
  • Locked
The sequel to a novel born on THR, MONSTER HUNTER VENDETTA, in stores this week
2 3 4 5 6 7
Replies
170
Views
8K
danprkr
D
N
  • Locked
The Mr. Nightcrawler Trilogy: Book I
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Replies
379
Views
52K
Mandolin
M
Back
Top