I just finished reading the SAS Urban Survival Handbook. Good stuff, but it can make you a little paranoid in your own home. 
Could it be that there's a good reason for that...?
I've just finished reading "In Secret Service" by Mitch Silver. Many of you may have read it, or at least know of it. It's a bit of fiction based around a secret manuscript written by Ian Fleming which details a Royal family conspiracy with the Nazis in WWII. It had its exciting moments, but was nothing special. What's sad is that the pages of the Fleming manuscript read nothing like Fleming, and were often the most boring and confusing bits of the story (to me, at least). I believe this was Silver's first novel, and it's not a bad effort, though I'm not sure I would ever have read it had there not been the Fleming connection within it.
I'm also reading "The Bourne Ultimatum" by Ludlum. This series seems to get progressively worse. "Identity" was a fairly good novel, which I finished off in a matter of days. But as the novels have gone on they've gotten longer and less interesting, often padded out with more characters and plotlines than one thriller should contain. I'm actually reading Ultimatum on an extended plan, where I read a few chapters, but the book down, read another book, then continue with Ultimatum, and so on. Like much of Ludlum's stuff, there's nothing great here, but there's something that compels me to keep reading, for I know the endings to his books are often quite exciting and rewarding. But at 645 pages, the ending to Ultimatum is still about 400 pages off, and I'm hoping I'll soon find some great stuff in the book to drive me there quickly. For now, I need to find another book to read while I take a break from Ultimatum. And by the way, if you haven't read the Bourne books, beyond a few details in Identity, they have nothing in common with the films.
