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For a long time now suspense fiction books have been quite popular the main reason is that people who read them just want to escape from their boring day to day life. When reading a great suspense book you get so into the book that the world around you just falls away and you are left with the world you are reading about. A great author knows how to pull his readers into the book with only his words.

When you are reading a good suspense book you feel like you are apart of that world and you are right there with the main character trying to solve the mystery. If you are reading a book and you do not feel like you are in that story then it is not a good suspense book.

Fiction means there are no limits to what you can write about and that is why fiction is so intriguing. You just get so wrapped up in the mystery of suspense fiction books whether you are the writer or the reader.

A great suspense fiction author is always in demand since the readers are always looking for another great book to read. The reason for reading these great fiction books so to leave your boring life behind. Not many people can say they live a life full of suspense, adventure, action, and mystery.

If you are one of the few people who live a life like that then you don't really need to read a fiction suspense book but for those of us without action in our lives we depend on our books. Books in general no matter what genre are great when you are lonely. You can find friends in between the cover of a book.

If you are a faithful reader you begin to feel as if you know the characters in the story. When you talk about the book you talk about the people in it as if they were real people that you know. I have had several conversations with friends about suspense books that I was wrapped up in and I had my friends completely confused.

They thought I was talking about a real person who had been through some type of adventure. They all got a big laugh at my expense when they figured out i was talking about fictional characters. If you read good books then I am sure you know exactly what I mean. You begin to know these people and you want to know what happens to them.

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Spartan Gold signifies the launch of a fifth book series by perpetual New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler, this time in partnership with up and coming young author Grant Blackwood.

The books of this new series are called "Fargo Adventures," so named after the book's heroes, married couple Sam and Remi Fargo.

Having fulfilled the American dream early in life to become independently wealthy, the Fargos now devote themselves to archeological treasure hunting; and they let nothing stand in their way of finding what they search for.

While the Fargo Adventures feature a new cast of characters and a slightly different action venue - treasure hunting - the telltale hallmarks of a true Cussler-novel that we have all come to love and expect still remain: Exotic cars, foods and drinks, as well as lots of excitement on, in and around water.

Through Spartan Gold we follow Sam and Remi Fargo as they pursue a trail of clues left behind by Napoleon Bonaparte on the back of wine-bottle labels from his lost wine cellar. Not only are the clues written as riddles but they are also in code, which they must first crack.

Of course there are also adversaries to be faced and dealt with. A former Soviet freedom fighter turned mafia billionaire sends his hired hooligans to interfere with the Fargos' investigation, several times imperiling their very lives.

At the end of the trail await two ancient Greek statues of pure gold, which were looted from Greece by Persian conqueror Xerxes the Great. Bondaruk has discovered through genealogy research that he is a direct descendant of Xerxes, and believes the treasure is his rightful inheritance, never mind that is was stolen from Greece.

The riddles on the wine-bottles lead the Fargos and their adversaries from a WWII German submarine in the Great Pocomoke Swamp of Maryland to the Bahamas and through much of Europe including Monaco, Croatia, Italy, Germany, and Ukraine: not necessarily in that sequence.

To sum it up, Spartan Gold is the first in an exciting new series by the master of marine action novels, Clive Cussler, complete with the distinct hallmarks that we have come to love and expect from this beloved author. In other words, Spartan Gold is another guaranteed New York Times bestseller.

Britt Hellman resides in North Carolina with her husband and three sons, operating her own copywriting business from home. Clive Cussler has been long time favorite author. Visit her Cussler book site to order the Spartan Gold novel or read her review of the latest Dirk Pitt novel, Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler.

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Back from the time when it all began, The Light Fantastic is the classic second Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett from 1986. Little did anybody know that it would eventually lead to Pratchett becoming Great Britain's number one best-selling author in the following decade.

Even though Pratchett's novels take place in an alternate universe, on a "planet" known as the Discworld, his books are really parodies on the peculiarities of our own world. The Light Fantastic pokes fun at the myths of Armageddon and the religious zeal it engenders in some people. Consequently, entranced, mindless throngs coalesce into book burning frenzies and fanatical lynch mobs.

Moving through all of this, we follow the (mis-)adventures of a "failed" wizard named Rincewind as he travels around the Discworld, trying to get away from anything that seems threatening, which covers just about everything.

That is to say, everything except what has everybody else running scared: The new Red Star that has recently appeared in the sky, and which keeps growing brighter and hotter by the minute. Rincewind's travel companion Twoflower takes comfort in his friend's lack of panic because knowing Rincewind, "If there was anything at all to be frightened about, he'd be frightened. But he's not. The star is just about the only thing I've ever seen him not frightened of. If he's not worried, then take if it from me, there's nothing to worry about."

And of course, in the end, Twoflower turns out to be right in assessing the fate of the world by taking the pulse on Rincewind, the Discworld's premiere expert on knowing when and when not to panic.

The adventures of Rincewind and Twoflower take them through a forest of talking trees, a visit with predominantly friendly rock trolls, travelling through the universe in a magic gift shop and through the skies on a druid-levitated rock, narrowly escaping Death after visiting the netherworlds, and saving a sacrificial virgin against her most ardent insistence: Things that are possible on the Discworld and nowhere else.

In the end, it's really all about a powerful magic spell that has lodged itself in Rincewind's brain, waiting for the Red Star to appear before reuniting with seven other spells to be read at the appointed time in order to turn the path of Great A'Tuin away from his (or her) collision course with the Red Star.

Great A'Tuin, needless to say, is the enormous sea turtle carrying the Discworld on its back through the Universe. Just in case you were of the mistaken impression that all planets were spherical and revolved around stars.

The Light Fantastic is British humor at its very best. Even those who normally don't like British humor would likely be hard pressed to not laugh out loud while immersed in this novel.

Britt Hellman lives in North Carolina with her husband and three children. A professional copywriter, she writes and publishes book reviews as a hobby. In the late 1980's, her husband turned her onto the books by Terry Pratchett. Visit her website The Light Fantastic for a complete list of Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett, from The Color of Magic (1983) to Unseen Academicals (2009).

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