Books author - "Thomas Hoover"
s a pause that Grant Hampton thought lasted an eternity."You picked a funny time to call." Is that all she has to say? Four and a half frigging years she shuts me out of her life, blaming me, and then... "Well, Ally, I figured there's gotta be a statute of limitations on being accused of something I didn't do. So I decided to take a flier that maybe four years and change was in the ballpark." "Grant, do you know what time it is? This is Sunday and--" "Hey,
(Bantam Books 1991) Publisherβs Weekly βHooverβs characters double-deal their way through settings ranging from the Acropolis to the inside of a superplane that skims the edge of space β- the ultimate in death-dealing. A secret agreement between the Russian military and the Yakuza, Japanese crime lords, threatens to shift the balance of world power.β
(Bantam 1988) βA financial thriller right out of the headlines.β Adam Smith A high-finance, high-tech thriller of Wall Street, murder, currency manipulation. A mysterious Japanese industrialist begins a massive 'hedging' in the US markets. Two weeks later, in Japanβs Inland Sea, divers working for him recover the Imperial Sword, given to Japan's first Emperor by the Sun Goddess. Can a lone American lawyer stop him from bringing down the US?
Doubleday, 1985) βThis action-crammed, historically factual novel . . . is a rousing read, ably researched by Hooverβ Publishers Weekly Barbados and Jamaica 1648. The lush and deadly Caribbean paradise, domain of rebels and slaveholders, of bawds and buccaneers. Colonists fight a wishful war for freedom against England.
(Bantam 1992) The Aegean, ex-agent Michael Vance pilots the Odyssey II, a handmade replica. A Russian gunship with Arab terrorists takes a tiny island where a U.S. corporation has a laser space facility. The renegades convert the launch vehicle into a ballistic missile that can deliver their stolen nuclear warhead to any city in the U.S. Can Vance stop them?
(Doubleday, 1983) Reviewers called it the best novel on India since Kipling. An immediate European bestseller, optioned by Indian/German producers who commissioned a six-hour mini-series, then Canadian producers with BBC. Based on real people (ca. 1620) β an English βsea dogβ shoots his way through Portuguese gallons and into an Indian port to open trade. Once on land, thereβre tiger hunts, war elephants, sensual music, drugs, and sacred lovemaking.
s a pause that Grant Hampton thought lasted an eternity."You picked a funny time to call." Is that all she has to say? Four and a half frigging years she shuts me out of her life, blaming me, and then... "Well, Ally, I figured there's gotta be a statute of limitations on being accused of something I didn't do. So I decided to take a flier that maybe four years and change was in the ballpark." "Grant, do you know what time it is? This is Sunday and--" "Hey,
(Bantam Books 1991) Publisherβs Weekly βHooverβs characters double-deal their way through settings ranging from the Acropolis to the inside of a superplane that skims the edge of space β- the ultimate in death-dealing. A secret agreement between the Russian military and the Yakuza, Japanese crime lords, threatens to shift the balance of world power.β
(Bantam 1988) βA financial thriller right out of the headlines.β Adam Smith A high-finance, high-tech thriller of Wall Street, murder, currency manipulation. A mysterious Japanese industrialist begins a massive 'hedging' in the US markets. Two weeks later, in Japanβs Inland Sea, divers working for him recover the Imperial Sword, given to Japan's first Emperor by the Sun Goddess. Can a lone American lawyer stop him from bringing down the US?
Doubleday, 1985) βThis action-crammed, historically factual novel . . . is a rousing read, ably researched by Hooverβ Publishers Weekly Barbados and Jamaica 1648. The lush and deadly Caribbean paradise, domain of rebels and slaveholders, of bawds and buccaneers. Colonists fight a wishful war for freedom against England.
(Bantam 1992) The Aegean, ex-agent Michael Vance pilots the Odyssey II, a handmade replica. A Russian gunship with Arab terrorists takes a tiny island where a U.S. corporation has a laser space facility. The renegades convert the launch vehicle into a ballistic missile that can deliver their stolen nuclear warhead to any city in the U.S. Can Vance stop them?
(Doubleday, 1983) Reviewers called it the best novel on India since Kipling. An immediate European bestseller, optioned by Indian/German producers who commissioned a six-hour mini-series, then Canadian producers with BBC. Based on real people (ca. 1620) β an English βsea dogβ shoots his way through Portuguese gallons and into an Indian port to open trade. Once on land, thereβre tiger hunts, war elephants, sensual music, drugs, and sacred lovemaking.