Author Archives: Nidha N

Curtain by Agatha Christie

Curtain, written during World War II and published 30 years later, in 1975 during the fag end of Agatha Christie’s life is one of Agatha Christie’s detective novel, renowned for the fact that this novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings, two of Agatha Christie’s renowned detectives in their final appearances. Hercule Poirot is featured…

The Eye of the Needle

The Eye of the Needle is British author Ken Follet’s masterpiece. It is a spy novel set in World war II, dealing with Operation Fortitude, a massive Allied counter-intelligence operation to divert German military troops from Normandy. Henry Faber, the German spy works in England in a railway depot. Her landlady manages to stumble upon…

The Key to Rebacca

The Key to Rebacca, published in 1980 is Ken Follet’s third bestseller. The plot in set in Egypt during World War II. The German general Rommel is breating down Cairo and all seems lost for the Allies. This is when a spy tries to sneak in unobserved, walking all the way from Libya through the…

The Devil’s Discipline

The Devil’s Discipline takes a different theme from Glenn Meade’s usual spy and chase action novel but is nevertheless an invigorating novel in its own right. Glenn Meade’s traditional strengths of indepth characterization, mastery of the settings and fast paced turn of events are very much present in this novel, and readers, as usual find…

Web of Deceit

Glenn Meade is one of the best contemporary novelists, and the author of top selling novels such as The Sands of Sakkara and Snow Wolf., and “Web of Deceit” fits into this category. Here the plot centers around Jennifer March, a New York attorney. She is haunted by the mysterious and savage slaughter of her…

Reserruction Day

Glenn Meade is an Irish novelist of repute, having established his fame for writing master thrillers through novels such as The Sands of Sakkara and Snow Wolf. Resurrection Day is one such book. The plot centers around the world’s most wanted terrorist holding to ransom the United States of America. The terrorist begins a daring…

Snow Wolf

Glenn Meade is an Irish novelist, and an extremely good one. Snow Wolf is one of his bestsellers and deals with a covert attempt to assassinate on Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the USSR in 1953. The precise details or real reason for Stalin’s death remain undisclosed till date and the matter is still one…

The Sands of Sakkara

The Sands of Sakkara is Glenn Meade’s bestselling historic thriller, and one of the best novels ever written. The story is set in the sands of Egypt, where the two protagonists, Jack Halder and Harry Weaver are involved in an archaeological dig along with the extremely beautiful Rachel Stern. The duo fall in love with…

Realism in fiction: Unity of time and place

Modern plays and novels, unrestrained by the necessary of the audience having to view the plays on stage have digressed widely from the concept of unity o time and place. Many novels now stretch across generations, and all novels in fact now have several sub plots taking place at diverse locations and diverse times, finally…

Realices in fiction: Struggle between forces of good and evil

Literature is a reflection of real life events and as it is the case with real life, most novels deal with the struggle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. The departure from real life situation rest in the fact that in novels the forces of good always vanquishes the forces of…