Finally he gave up, crossed the parlor to the liquor cabinet, and poured himself a tall glass of bourbon from Father's decanter. Another mark of a great book is when the author puts your favorite good guys and girls through the paces, and Simmons absolutely did that with Saul and Natalie.

With his interests in story-telling sparked by an excessive amount of time sitting in front of a black and white television, his tastes are varied.

Much has changed in these long millennia and the commentaries found within the novel are a marked departure from the realities that we as readers know of. Willi's face was flushed with excitement, but there was also the telltale capillary redness about the nose and cheeks which spoke of too much liquor, too many drugs. Saul and Natalie also kidnap, drug and hypnotize Harod into helping get Saul to the island as a surrogate. Getting help from an old concentration camp prisoner, Saul Laski, who was once one of Willi's pawns, they set out to find the truth and if possible kill the mind vampires. Arnold Barent, along with Charles Colben, director of the FBI; Nieman Trask, a senator from Maine; Joseph Kepler, another member of the FBI; and Reverend Jimmy Wayne Sutter, an influential televangelist.

to ITC series (The Saint, The Champions, Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) and so many more), so the common theme was action and adventure, but crossed into territories including horror, fantasy and science fiction as well as crime and espionage. Ranking among the greatest reinventions of the vampire legend, this classic novel explores humanity's attraction to violence and what it means for our future. However, Saul had been preparing for this and through hypnosis, implanted the scenes of those who experienced the Holocaust into his subconscious, so that each of those “scenes” appeared before Willi. It was a caricature of ponderous dullness, the confusion of a man who finds himself in a situation not of his making and from which he cannot escape. Saul, after years of working with various groups to track down the Oberst, believes he has found him—a man named Willi Borden.

I’m not a chess guy, and you wouldn’t think a chess game, for all intents and purposes, would be exciting as the first of two climaxes to an epic book, but you’d be wrong! As a result, his stories don’t always fall into a specific genre, but will always maintain the style of a thriller.