Posts labeled Marshall Thornton

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Review - Never Rest by Marshall Thornton

My rating: * * * * *

After battling leukemia for five years, nineteen-year-old Jake is ready to give up the fight. He’s out of treatment options, and his body is failing fast. His mother isn’t quite ready to give up, though. She signs Jake up for a new experimental treatment at a clinic in the middle of nowhere, Michigan. Jake is too weak to argue and is sure he's near the end by the time they arrive.

Tags: Science Fiction Paranormal

 

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Review - Desert Run by Marshall Thornton

My rating: * * * * *

Don has a gig playing the piano in a Palm Springs bar, in the off season. Don isn’t his real name. He’s been on the run after accidentally killing the son of a mobster in a bar fight back in Chicago. One night, a woman comes to the bar and takes Don back to her motel, where she eventually reveals she knows who he is. Don is on the run again with hired thugs on his heals.

Tags: Thriller 1970s

 

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Review - Code Name: Liberty by Marshall Thornton

My rating: * * * * *

In the summer of 1980, Carter is running for re-election against Ronald Reagan. Iran is holding Americans hostage in Tehran. Twenty-year-old Patrick is waiting tables in a French restaurant at the top of one of Washington, DC’s posh hotels. On a night out at a club, Patrick meets “David,” who claims to be a Persian prince. David really is a prince, and the two have great chemistry, but David makes it clear that he’ll one day have to do his duty, marry a woman and produce heirs.

Tags: America Spies