A review of Tribe, by James Bruno. @@@ (3 out of 5). Following a botched mission to Afghanistan, veteran CIA agent Harry Brennan comes to believe that someone in the agency tried to have him killed in the field to conceal a plot to shift U.S. foreign policy to the benefit of Big Oil.
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A review of Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World’s Greatest Business Case for Compassion, by Pavithra Mehta and Suchitra Shenoy. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). How this unique South Indiana nonprofit enterprise became the largest and most productive blindness-prevention organization on the planet.
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A review of Explosive Eighteen, by Janet Evanovich. @@@@ (4 out of 5). Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her sidekick, Lula, find themselves embroiled in a complex set of relationships with Stephanie’s old nemesis, Joyce Barnhardt, and a rumored international gang of jewel thieves called the Pink Panthers.
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A review of The Drop, by Michael Connelly. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). LAPD detective Harry Bosch is assigned an especially difficult case involving apparently botched DNA analysis and a twenty-year-old rape and murder. No sooner has he begun digging into the mystifying circumstances of the DNA specimen than the Chief’s office insists he take on a high-profile new case: a City Councilman’s son has apparently committed suicide.
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A review of Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World, by Maria Armoudian. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). In Kill the Messenger, political scientist and radio broadcaster Maria Armoudian ably examines the central role of mass media in human affairs over the course of the 20th Century.
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.