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Review Date: 1/29/2012
Paraguay is depicted as a surreal country with a dark history. Yet Gimlette finds humor and colorful characters everywhere.
Review Date: 9/28/2012
Mexico travels in the China of potheads, punks, gays and other outlaws who do not fit the stereotype of modern day China.
Review Date: 4/16/2007
Helpful Score: 1
World war II intrigue, code breaking, high-tech finance schemes, treasure hunting, romance. It is long and complicated but a lot of fun.
Review Date: 6/2/2007
Helpful Score: 2
Spanning from London and Berlin 1945 through Washington DC in 1960 to Berlin in 1980, Carroll has written a good Cold War intrigue tale spiced with the complicated family dynamics that being the son of a CIA officer might bring. Something that Carroll is familiar with as he is the son of a US intelligence officer himself.
Review Date: 1/9/2012
Eerie tale of the hunt for a rare frog in Haiti. As much an exploration of a Haitian mind as a search for an amphibian
Review Date: 4/16/2007
From Tulsa OK to the East Village of the 60s. Art, poetry and friendship fuel this voyage.
Review Date: 9/26/2013
Helpful Score: 1
A disparate group of Americans and Africans travels a dreamlike African landscape looking for the lost tribe of Israel. Complications ensue. Well-written and full of surprises.
Review Date: 4/16/2007
Helpful Score: 2
Murder in Sweden with tentacles reaching back to WW II. Well done.
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
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Book Type: Paperback
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Review Date: 4/16/2007
Don't agree with all his analysis but he is very thought provoking. The true story that gave the makers of Syriana their ideas.
Review Date: 5/2/2007
Helpful Score: 4
One of my all time favorites. Beautiful nature writing, magical setting in the Himalayas, and an amazing adventure both internally and out in the world.
Review Date: 1/28/2011
A good picture of a place(the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles) and a time between the 1940 s and the Watts riots. Very interesting insight into the complexities of race relations and the horror of racial prejudice against both blacks and Japanese. Kind of a companion piece to Walter Mosely's Easy Rawlins novels. Oh and it is also a murder mystery.
Review Date: 5/2/2007
The farther one goes,
The less one knows.
The less one knows.
Valhalla's Wake: The Ira, M16, and the Assassination of a Young American
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Book Type: Hardcover
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Review Date: 7/24/2015
It is impossible to give this book a rating. It is a fascinating story of drug running, arms smuggling, crime in Boston and the IRA. However subsequent history has shown that the vook's conclusion is 100% wrong. Whitey Bulger, who actually killed John McIntyre, is totally absent. Is it disinformation? Was Loftus mislead? I cannot say but you are left wondering.
Review Date: 4/16/2007
Typical Robbins with zany characters and wild word play. This one features guys who never came home from Viet Nam. Is there really such a creature as the Tanuki?
Review Date: 2/4/2012
Moving and chilling account of Argentina' "dirty war" in the 1970s and it's aftermath, told by a former American exchange student who returns to Buenos Aires to.see what is left of his host family.
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