Day of Judgement vs To Catch a King: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Day of Judgement Day of Judgement Henry Patterson · 1697 ★★★★☆ 3.6 263 pages · ≈ 4 h 52 m · Demanding
“AS MEYER TURNED the corner in the old hearse, he reduced speed, his hands slippery with sweat as they gripped the wheel, his stomach tightening as he drove toward the checkpoint, clear in the night under the harsh white light of the arc lamps.”

From the back cover of Bantam paperback June 1980: June 26, 1963. JFK's triumphal visit to divided Berlin is about to trigger catastrophe for the Free World... East German Intelligence -- with the aid of a renegade…

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Cover of To Catch a King To Catch a King Henry Patterson · 1979 ★★★★☆ 3.8 254 pages · ≈ 4 h 42 m · Moderate

THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO is a great book recounting the story of a pair of man-eating predator lions that the author and his team killed, known as the Tsavo Man-eaters. Following the death of the lions, the book tells…

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Goodreads 3.6 (824) —
Hardcover — 4.0 (3)
Google Books 5.0 (1) —

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Ratings 824 3
Editions 38 36
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 122 —
Reading it now 7 —
Written reviews 37 —
Wikipedia attention 12536 415
Pages 263 254

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