If you’re into mysteries(I prefer Tom Clancy, military history, or books on Catholicsm), might I recommend Martin Cruz Smith’s ‘Arkady Renko’ series? “Gorky Park”, “Polar Star”, and “Red Square”. He wrote a fourth one, I think it was called “Havana Bay”, but it wasn’t nearly as good.
The first three are brilliant ‘police procedural’ novels about a Moscow detective in the old Soviet Union and ends with the downfall of the Communists in ‘89-90. Like I said, it’s a very good trilogy.
Noted the titles, ABG. Thanks! Another book I picked up was Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan’s account of the Red Sox’s ‘04 season. Have you read that?