Currently reading a book called Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the 60s by Tom O ‘Neil. The book that I just finished was Flowers in the Attic.
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My most recent is I went back and reread Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising.
I was reminded of how much I love that book, how much I would love to see it made into a TV show (each chapter is dense enough you could easily make an hour episode out of each one)...and how much I hope Hollywood never actually touches it. Because dear god, they would butcher the shit out of it, especially Nakamura and especially Vigdis.
I think I have that one. If not I’ll keep an eye out
It is one of the classics of military fiction, and as much as I like Clancy's stuff normally, RSR is him at his absolute peak. But you can very much tell it was written in the 1980's just based on the sensibilities of many of the characters and the things he has them do or say. Even if other elements are arguably ahead of their time (Amelia Nakamura being one of the main side characters, who ends the book as the first female ace fighter pilot).
Another one for the uncanny ability Clancy seems to have for knowing his military stuff, he almost perfectly called how the US would conduct the opening of Operation Desert Storm, with the opening air strikes by NATO almost mirroring the same strategy that would end up being used IRL, but almost 5 years early.
EDIT: I also completely forgot about the fact that the book starts with a Muslim terrorist attack. Which would absolutely not fly in this day and age.