Action & Adventure

Over the past year, we've seen a number of great authors make themselves available to attend book club meetings.  If your book club is looking to turn your next meeting into an adventure, look no further than the Action & Adventure section of Book Club Reading List.  Here you will find authors from the Action & Adventure genre who are making themselves available to attend book club meetings by phone, Skype, or in-person.  Select a title, read the book's summary, and contact the author directly.  It's that simple.


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Below are a few interesting options for your next meeting:


The God Complex
Inspired by actual events, The God Complex takes readers on a thrill ride through Chinese medicine. As you solve a gripping mystery, you discover the secrets of the Orient through a Da Vinci-style adventure. Each clue brings you one step closer to solving the mystery and understanding Eastern medicine, along with its hidden connection to martial arts.

Warning: This book contains violence and sexual content, and has nothing to do with religion. A “God complex” is a psychological term that refers to people who believe they are infallible. It’s often used in reference to doctors.




Pegasus
Widowed at thirty, Hannah Bradley is a successful journalist focusing on animal abuse issues. An accidental meeting introduces her to lawyer, Winston Caughfield III. Drawn to Hannah’s gentle beauty and fierce commitment to her work, Win joins her in a fight to save wild mustangs from slaughter. Together they rescue a badly injured horse with a mysterious background. Hannah’s search to discover the animal’s true identity leads them into a web of black marketeering and international intrigue. Action packed with crisp colorful dialogue the story propels the reader to a race against time conclusion. Marilyn Holdsworth delivers a gripping tale of mystery, adventure and romance guaranteed to hold the interest and capture the heart. She brings true-life characters together with real-life issues to create a fast-paced irresistible story.




The Super Spies and the Cat Lady Killer
This book opens in a small town in Michigan where fifteen-year-old Sarah Cole is stuck spending the summer at her Aunt and Uncle’s with her sister, Lacey. She’s not happy with the situation until she befriends a girl named Jackie. The three girls stumble upon the ruthless murder of a reclusive neighborhood woman. One of the officers investigating the crime believes the girls are responsible for her death. Fearing that this officer will frame them for the murder, the girls organize their own detective squad. They become the Super Spies and start their own fact-finding mission. The Super Spies can’t understand why anyone would want to murder the “Cat Lady” until they start digging into her past and discover a horrible crime that happened thirty years ago. They uncover a connection between the two crimes and attempt to bring this information to the police, only to be reprimanded for meddling in the inquest. Not only are the girls upset by the admonition, but they also struggle with the fact that their exuberant investigating could provide a legal loophole allowing the killer to go free. To make matters worse, the police don’t even believe them. Frustrated by this turn of events, the Super Spies realize it’s up to them to snare the Cat Lady killer, or die trying…










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