Pennyworth Books

Michael Crichton is well-known for writing all types of books; from medical thrillers, to science fiction, to stories with historical plots. Crichton’s book Sphere, written over twenty years ago in 1987, fits into the science fiction category with military and biology mixed into the story. The author uses his Harvard medical degree and knowledge of biology well in this story to enhance the plot and make the book more interesting.

This story revolves around a psychologist named Norman Johnson. In Johnson’s past, he wrote a document for the government stating what would happen if aliens were to visit Earth. He was asked to state information such as what the aliens might look like, and how humans would go about communicating with the aliens. Johnson is called one day by the Navy to visit a classified spot in the Pacific Ocean which the military and government is very interested in.

The Navy has…

Alan Robertson’s “Diamond” is a story of deception, greed, and betrayals, one following another until the maze of double-crosses resolves itself in a satisfying conclusion. The title character, Diamond, is the type of beautiful blonde woman every man dreams of being with, and the type of woman who knows how to use her beauty to get what she wants-amateur detective, Jack Tramp, is, unfortunately, all too willing to give in to her at the wrong moments, but what warm-blooded man can blame him when she is so stunningly luscious and desirable? Jack isn’t the only man in this novel who succumbs to her feminine wiles.

The story starts when Jack Tramp, in need of some money to tide him over before he receives his inheritance from his recently deceased uncle, agrees to do some private detective work for a stranger to whom his lawyer-friend introduces him. Jack is asked to search…

Jaswant left the Indian Army about four decades back and joined the BJP, the Hindu political party floated with the backing of nationalist Hindu organizations like the RSS (Rashtra Swaym sewak Sangh). In fact he was a founder member of the party in 1980.Jaswant rise over the last 3 decades was meteoric and he achieved a great deal of prominence in the BJP. He had the distinction of being India’s foreign Minister during the erstwhile rule of the BJP when Vajpayee was the Prime Minister.

With the defeat of the BJP in 2004 at the hustings, Mr. Jaswant has used his spare time well by writing scholarly articles and books. His latest Book ‘Jinnah-partition, India ‘ is one such exercise. It’s a well written book and Jaswant cannot be faulted in his rendering of that tortuous period in the history of the sub continent.

!947 was a momentous period in Indian history.…