Gray Wolf Blog

First part is interesting, second part ok, but the third lost me.

The Shot

The Davenport series is always good for checking out for a bit.

Field of Prey

This is a tale that will undoubtedly repeat.

Betrayal:: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy

HAL gets an upgrade and

The Second Angel
a sex change. Pretty weird book. Runs out of gas at the end but not a waste of time.

Some interesting research but a pretty weak ending. Not bad overall.

The Last Templar

One of those too strange for fiction characters.

Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

Well researched and an interesting story.

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

A little far-fetched, but an easy read.

Memory of Flames

I ran into a weird error where chrome was populating forms within an application with the stored username/password. For instance, in an Add New User form, the stored username showed in in the zipcode field.

Turns out that Chrome now ignores the autocomplete=”off” attribute. Chrome also looks for the first textbox of type “password” and fills the textbox directly above with the username, assuming it must be a login page.

The fix is ugly, but seems to work ok in .Net MVC. You have to fake out Chrome by adding two hidden fields, one of which is type=”password”, like so:


<input style="display:none" type="text" name="fakeusernameremembered" />

<input style="display:none" type="password" name="fakepasswordremembered" />


Here is a detailed thread at SO.

Coben is pretty relaible.

Missing You

Pretty steady series.

Tatiana (Arkady Renko)

Something about those Irish writers. Can smell the peat from here.

The Rage (World Noir)

Third time through. Always something new to discover.

The Great Gatsby

An interesting setting and cast of characters.

Wolf Hunt: The Napoleonic Murders

The definitive story of a historic ship.

The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise (Classics of Naval Literature)

Bosch sure can step in it.

The Black Echo (A Harry Bosch Novel)

I really wanted to like this book but the format just did not work for me. Shiloh and The March receive only a couple pages.

Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman

Fast paced. A bit too cut-and-dried with a confusing array of second tier characters.

The Last Man: A Novel

Manages to cover a lot of ground and makes a fair effort in addressing both sides of a very complex man.

Patton. Ballantine Illustrated History of World War II. War Leader No. 1.

Even Spenser can get played, but not for long.

Valediction (Spenser)