"Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey"

Just completed reading "Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey" by the late-Nicholas Schaffner.  A very informative book on the foremost band to expound on its psychedelic foundation and still dominate the musical line-up of classic rock radio around the world.  There are a couple of drawback that tend to bog down the reader.  Schaffner gives an obsessive amount of pages to the rise and fall of Syd Barrett with unrelenting details on his eventual slip from the realities of this world.  The other is the often childish row between Roger Waters and the rest of the world.  Fortunately, there is a wealth of information and insight into the evolution of the band's creativity and thinking.  The behind the scenes perspective of the world's most iconic bands is well worth the read.

"The First Rule" by Robert Crais

Robert Crais' "The First Rule" is a return to my favorite protagonist, Joe Pike.  Traditionally left in a support role for Crais' popular Elvis Cole, Pike is a source of action packed drama in his own right.  Having spent over three decades in the military, it is easier to relate to Pike's temperament, his sense of values, and the frustration of what others see as right and wrong.  As a long-time reader of Robert Crais - "The First Rule" is one of his best to date.