The Detachment - Barry Eisler [141]
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/29/ko
George Carlin’s more-relevant-than-ever take on who owns America and what they want.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
Two videos of the brachial stun in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00je-NmU4Tg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcaOr1TBA1w
Why is John Rain so paranoid about mobile phone tracking?
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/global-phone-tracking/all/1
Horton’s speech in the Rose Garden draws on certain rhetorical techniques described in more detail in The Ass Is A Poor Receptacle For The Head.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050O7VLW
And for a real life equivalent in Norway.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/head-of-norways-delta-force-says-finding-boat-to-island-retreat-caused-no-realdelays/2011/07/27/gIQAqtkOcI_story.html
Novel Air Capability, the inspiration for the drone in the book.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/7-next-generation-uavs-0855/1
A real world example of the way narrative is used to shape public perceptions of terrorism.
http://electronicintifada.net/blog/benjamin-doherty/how-clueless-terrorism-expert-set-media-suspicion-muslims-after-oslo-horror
Dox’s Knight’s Armament SR-25 sniper rifle in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yv1uC3qZkk
AFTERSHOCKS
If you’re fond of Japan, as I am, I hope you’ll consider buying a copy of 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories From The Japan Earthquake, with a foreword I was humbled to be asked to contribute. One hundred percent of the purchase price goes to relief efforts in Japan.
Or download the Kindle edition for free and consider a donation to the Japanese Red Cross through QuakeBook.org. Thanks.
STIRRED
by Blake Crouch and J.A. Konrath
In her twenty-five-year career with the Chicago police department, Lt. Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels has seen the worst of humanity. She’s lost loved ones and narrowly escaped death on countless occasions—and she has the nightmares to prove it. Jack is the best the Chicago PD has to offer, and she has brought some of the city’s most notorious criminals to their knees. All, that is, but one…
Luther Kite is evil incarnate. Depraved and inhumane, he takes life for the sheer pleasure of watching his terrified victims die. He is a monster among monsters, taunting and frustrating law enforcement every bloody step of the way. But when the kills become too easy, he sets his sight on the one victim who can offer him a true challenge, the only woman who is a match for his extraordinary skill: Jack Daniels. And when it comes to killing Daniels, only Kite’s very best work will do.
Fast-paced, suspenseful, and darkly comic, Stirred brings together J.A. Konrath’s Jack Daniels and Blake Crouch’s Luther Kite for a final heart-stopping showdown that will leave readers reeling!
http://www.amazon.com/Stirred-Jacqueline-Daniels-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0050KIRDC
RUN
by Blake Crouch
For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Thomas Harris, picture this: a landscape of American genocide…
5 DAYS AGO
A rash of bizarre murders swept the country…
Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected.
4 DAYS AGO
The murders increased ten-fold…
3 DAYS AGO
The President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace…
2 DAYS AGO
The killers began to mobilize…
YESTERDAY
All the power went out…
TONIGHT
They’re reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening over the battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they’ve just read yours.
Your name is Jack Colclough. You have a wife, a daughter, and a young son. You live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. You don’t know why, but you don’t have time to think about that any more.
You only have time to….
RUN
http://www.amazon.com/Run-ebook/dp/B004PGNF0W
THE DELILAH COMPLEX
by M.J. Rose
As one of New York’s top sex therapists, Dr. Morgan Snow sees everything from the abused to the depraved. The Butterfield Institute