When looking for some new author's to read, I ran across some consistently high Amazon reviews for author Stephen Leather ( http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Leather/e/B000APS0ZM/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 ).  Not wanting to jump into one of his longer running series, I picked up Nightfall which is the first of a trilogy of books based around Jack Nightingale (yeah, I know, not very subtle).  So with the character name setting a bad start, I grudgingly proceeded to read the book fearing I had stuck myself with some genre sludge written to tap the exploding reader interest in this area.  And in the blink of an eye, fifty pages had passed and I was hooked.  Huh, I didn't see that coming.