Sander Diamond, Author, Jeff Rovin, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-24930-6
Diamond, a history professor and Soviet specialist at Keuka College, and Rovin, who made their joint debut in Starik , here present a fast-paced international thriller with the well-conveyed atmosphere of post- glasnost Russia. Power-hungry,...
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Rovin, author of Tom Clancy's popular Op-Center series, takes the reader on a bone-chilling ride to Antarctica in his first stand-alone military thriller (after two horror novels, Fatalis
and Vespers
), packed with military strategy, submarine...
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Jeff Rovin, Author Pocket Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-61872-8
Rovin, author of Joan Collins, Julio and other biographies, sympathetically traces Stallone's life and career, including his troubled childhood, the Oscar-winning picture Rocky, and his various setbacks and comebacks since. Stallone's early...
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Jeff Rovin, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-525-24626-8
A 64-year-old Harvard professor indulging in derring-do in the Moscow Metro may be a bit farfetched as a protagonist, but this doomsday thriller is credible nonetheless. Soviet Chairman Cherganyev, a fanatical worshipper of Lenin (""Starik,'' the...
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Jeff Rovin, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-19351-5
Two giant bats and a whole mess of little ones attack Manhattan in a snappy, old-fashioned horror tale by an author who's a bit of a night creature himself--for Rovin, according to several published reports, is the ghostwriter for Tom Clancy's...
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Jeff Rovin, Author St. Martin's Press $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-24103-2
Saber-tooth tigers attack Los Angeles in Rovin's gung-ho second novel of cryptozoological horror. (In the first, Vespers, Rovin imagined mutant bats tearing up New York City.) The new novel opens in classic horror style, on a Santa Barbara hillside,
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Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin. S&S/
Simon 451, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-7655-2
In the cryptic prologue of Anderson and Rovin’s sequel to 2014’s A Vision of Fire, members of the alien Galderkhaani race, flying on a gondola attached to a balloon made of “inflated hortatur skin,” crash into the sea. Meanwhile in the Antarctic, a “
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William Shatner and Jeff Rovin. Simon & Schuster, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1155-6
Shatner and Rovin have created a tightly paced blend of police procedural, military SF, and space opera, set in an intriguing near-future world. Unfortunately, it is populated by predictable character types—whose racial and gender diversity, though...
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Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin. Simon 451, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4767-7659-0
The third and final volume of Anderson and Rovin’s Earthend Saga is sure to please readers of the previous two books, A Vision of Fire and A Dream of Ice, though newcomers would have benefited from a summary of what came before. Manhattan...
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Jeff Rovin. Griffin, $16.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-18301-9
Rovin’s thrilling fifth entry in the reboot of the Op-Center series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik (after 2017’s Dark Zone) presents a near-future scenario in which two nuclear devices, which were secretly shipped to far eastern Siberia...
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Jeff Rovin. St. Martin’s Griffin, $16.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-18302-6
In Rovin’s exciting sixth entry in the thriller series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik (after 2018’s For Honor), President Wyatt Midkiff disbands the Op-Center because its director, Chase Williams, and his staff failed to anticipate a...
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Jeff Rovin. St. Martin’s, $17.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-20925-2
The crash of an airliner, whose passengers were coughing up blood, onto the rocky shore of a largely uninhabited island off the coast of South Africa kick-starts Rovin’s solid seventh entry in the series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik (aft
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Jeff Rovin. St. Martin’s/Griffin, $19 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-2508-6872-5
Rovin’s 19th Op-Center series entry (following 2021’s The Black Order) checks all the customary boxes, if mutedly. Things kick off after a Chinese space station destroys a manned American spacecraft, killing everyone on board, and the Op-Center, now
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Jeff Rovin. St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-22234-3
Rovin’s lackluster eighth entry in the series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik (after 2020’s God of War) pits the covert Black Wasp team headed by Adm. Chase Williams against an unimpressive cabal of villains. When a retired Navy captain...
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Jeff Rovin. St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-78286-1
Rovin’s assured ninth contribution to the series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik (after 2021’s The Black Order) opens with the explosion of a prototype hypersonic missile on the launchpad of China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Chief...
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Jeff Rovin and George Galdorisi. St. Martin’s Griffin, $16.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-02689-7
In Rovin and Galdorisi’s absorbing military thriller, the fourth entry in the reboot of the Op-Center series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik (after 2016’s Scorched Earth), Galina Ptrenko, a Ukrainian spy, contacts Douglas Flannery, a...
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Michael Savage. Center Street, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5460-8293-4
Controversial conservative talk radio host Savage (God, Faith and Reason) condemns the unhinged alarmism and name-calling rampant in American politics—except when it targets left-wing outrages—in this scattershot polemic. Savage surveys episodes of...
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William Shatner and Jeff Rovin. Simon & Schuster, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1158-7
Shatner and Rovin follow Zero-G with this rousing tale that combines espionage with two of science fiction’s greatest tropes: artificial intelligence and first contact. It is the year 2050, and something has gone drastically wrong with an experiment
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