No Country For Old Men – Coin Toss Scene

This scene is the perfect portrayal of a psychopath and sociopath as he encounters and scares the bejesus out of a normal man. Javier Bardem is a very fine actor and excels in this role. Rebel Voice believes that he has the deadest eyes of any who ever tried to be seen as a homicidal […]

Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian   by Cormac McCarthy This novel, set in both Mexico and the US in the mid-eighteenth century, has been lauded quite a bit since its publication in 1985. It centres around the life of the Kid, a fourteen year old boy born in 1833, in Tennessee, who leaves a motherless home in search of […]

Deal Breaker

Deal Breaker   by Harlan Coben Rebel Voice has decided that, after the recent break-up with James Lee Burke, we should both see other people. Harlan Coben is an old flame. Whether it is advisable to return to such a relationship is questionable, but here goes. In this first installment of the Myron Bolitar series (1995), […]

No Middle Name

Book Review No Middle Name   by Lee Child I went and did it again. I read another Child book. This, despite the reservations that I had about the Jack Reacher series of which No Middle Name is one part – see Rebel Voice Book Review for Night School. This is a short story collection […]

The Blade Artist

Book Review The Blade Artist   by Irvine Welsh Begbie’s back! Fans of Trainspotting will be all too familiar with the psychopathic Scotsman who starred in both book and movie of the same name. The Blade Artist is Franco Begbie’s story. James Francis Begbie has moved from Edinburgh to California, where he has reinvented himself […]

Home

Home  by Harlen Coben This is number 11 in the Myron Bolitar series. The bold Mr Bolitar is a former pro-basketball player turned sports agent, who continually finds himself getting into some very dangerous escapades. I hope to Christ he never ventures into Cabot Cove or all hell is going to break loose there, and […]