K S Smith: 33 books

Oil shortages.  Energy crisis.  War in the Middle East.  Political scandals.  Doomsday prophets pointing to Armageddon.  Is this today?  No, it’s the 1970s. Pastor Bill Renfrew comes back to his hometown Colter, Montana fresh from Bible college on a mission...

In the late 1960s, America was at a crossroads. It was divided over the war in Vietnam. The counter-culture challenged the World War Two generation. The Cold War held the threat of nuclear destruction. The race to the moon was in full swing. The sleepy cow town of Mineral Valley, Montana was no longer...

It’s 1984.  The country is pulling out of a recession.  The Reagan administration is beefing up defense.  The space shuttle, Challenger, is flying.  And the Satellite Test Center, known as the STC, is staffing up.  Among young professional women, Samantha Matijevic...

Survival is a game best played by the hunter… not the prey. Tobin, the master of subterfuge, has seeded his web of information in almost every stop he has been to. He is an artist of death, swaying the rivers of life to flow in the gorges demanded by Bytos, god to the Assassins. While painting his...

Lisbeth Salander, heroine of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, is one of the most compelling, complex characters of our time. Is she an avenging angel? A dangerous outlaw? What makes Salander tick, and why is our response to her-and to Larsson’s Millennium trilogy-so...