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An eighteen-year-old woman named Franca Viola made history in 1966 as one of the first “#metoo” heroines of modern times, when she refused to go along with a centuries-old forcible marriage custom in Sicily. Having endured kidnap and rape, she publicly defied the expectation that she would marry the rapist to “restore her broken honor.” A social uproar occurred throughout the island ― and beyond.

In Natalie Galli’s The Girl Who Said No, Viola’s remarkable story unfolds when the author arrives in Palermo to search for this brave heroine, with little more than the memory of a tiny article she had spotted two decades prior. Galli wanted to know whatever had become of this courageous girl who had overturned an ancient, entrenched tradition?

The riveting events after Franca pressed charges with the police form the core of this gripping memoir. Viola was subjected to public taunting whenever she appeared on the streets of her town; Mafia-orchestrated bullying threatened her entire family. Galli traced the dramatic tale to its conclusion, in spite of initial warnings from her own relatives not to break the Sicilian code of silence.

Throughout her search for the enigmatic Franca, Galli shares her own poignant and hilarious observations about a vibrant culture steeped in contradictions and paradoxes. Does she succeed in locating the elusive proto-feminist whose case forever changed Italian culture and history? Travel along on Galli’s engaging odyssey to find out.

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"In between the lines of this enchanting, refined portrait of Italy’s enigmatic three-cornered island, I discovered healing answers to haunting questions of my own Sicilian heritage. I virtually tasted my roots, and the cannolis, through Galli's evocative prose. Yet the most profound gift was finding a sister in the courageous Franca Viola, who made history in 1966 when, after enduring kidnap and rape, she refused to go along with the centuries-old custom of forcible marriage to the perpetrator. The “no” spoken by Viola echoes in the heart as a most significant turning point in world history, and will surely remind us of the exquisite joy in our own personal turning point marked by the use of the word, or perhaps shed light on the necessity to take the blissful step of standing up to any reflection of ourself who sees another as less than, for this is the sole portal to knowing loving union in human life. "The Girl Who Said No" is a work of world-class journalism and literature that inspires readers to challenge culturally conditioned notions of fate so they too may realize the true love that is their birthright and destiny. Galli's painstaking journey to unearth the story behind Viola's "no" is just as astonishing as the story itself—the potent combination of these inextricably interwoven tales leaves the heart in a state of utter "yes.""

Product details Paperback 352 pages Publisher Travelers' Tales (April 23, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1609521722

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• In between the lines of this enchanting, refined portrait of Italy’s enigmatic three-cornered island, I discovered healing answers to haunting questions of my own Sicilian heritage. I virtually tasted my roots, and the cannolis, through Galli's evocative prose. Yet the most profound gift was finding a sister in the courageous Franca Viola, who made history in 1966 when, after enduring kidnap and rape, she refused to go along with the centuries-old custom of forcible marriage to the perpetrator. The “no” spoken by Viola echoes in the heart as a most significant turning point in world history, and will surely remind us of the exquisite joy in our own personal turning point marked by the use of the word, or perhaps shed light on the necessity to take the blissful step of standing up to any reflection of ourself who sees another as less than, for this is the sole portal to knowing loving union in human life. "The Girl Who Said No" is a work of world-class journalism and literature that inspires readers to challenge culturally conditioned notions of fate so they too may realize the true love that is their birthright and destiny. Galli's painstaking journey to unearth the story behind Viola's "no" is just as astonishing as the story itself—the potent combination of these inextricably interwoven tales leaves the heart in a state of utter "yes."

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If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the Russian KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the 20th century. 

Always at the epicenter of events, Grossman (1905-1964) was among the first to describe the Holocaust and the Ukrainian famine. His 1944 article "The Hell of Treblinka" became evidence at the Nuremberg trials. Grossman's powerful anti-totalitarian works liken the Nazis' crimes against humanity with those of Stalin.

We are only now able to examine Grossman's prose, which has the everlasting quality of great art, as well as his life and legacy, which Popoff's authoritative biography illuminates.

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"A book that is as valuable as a warning of current political trends in Russia under Putin as it is a biography of a writer of the last century little known to most Americans (including me).

While the life of Vasily Grossman is definitively set out here, the details of that life are somewhat elusive given the chaos of the times he lived in and the state suppression he was subject to. What is clear is the courage Grossman exhibited in reporting during World War II and his writings on the striking similarities between the dehumanizing actions of the totalitarian states represented by the USSR and Nazi Germany. Jews and kulaks were both targeted: Truth was not valued under either system.

The tortured story of how the Kremlin delayed, edited, and in all other manner of ways made publishing difficult or impossible for this author is alone worth reading.

The paramount dignity of the individual was an idea championed by Vasily Grossman. Of this writer, Alexandra Popoff has written a fine biography."

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• A book that is as valuable as a warning of current political trends in Russia under Putin as it is a biography of a writer of the last century little known to most Americans (including me).
  
  While the life of Vasily Grossman is definitively set out here, the details of that life are somewhat elusive given the chaos of the times he lived in and the state suppression he was subject to. What is clear is the courage Grossman exhibited in reporting during World War II and his writings on the striking similarities between the dehumanizing actions of the totalitarian states represented by the USSR and Nazi Germany. Jews and kulaks were both targeted Truth was not valued under either system.
  
  The tortured story of how the Kremlin delayed, edited, and in all other manner of ways made publishing difficult or impossible for this author is alone worth reading.
  
  The paramount dignity of the individual was an idea championed by Vasily Grossman. Of this writer, Alexandra Popoff has written a fine biography.

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• Very informative book. I like that it has recipes for not only making sushi rice but also recipes for sushi quinoa. Has recipes for many different sauces. Includes good illustrations with each recipe and a large variety of recipes. The rice recipe assumes that you are using a rice cooker, which is no big deal, I just checked the time on the rice bag, worked well for me. I like the variety of recipes and can't wait to try them. Very informative and a good book for beginners in my opinion.
• Made sushi for the first time and it was completely edible. I'm so excited to try all the recipes.
  The book is beyond easy to understand and they even dedicate the beginning of the book explaining what is what.
• With this book, Baggett takes what could be a difficult culinary concept and makes it simple to understand. The visuals and brief descriptions of sushi ingredients were especially helpful. I like that alternative ingredients like quinoa and brown rice sushi are also discussed. And mostly... I'm looking forward to trying the wasabi deviled eggs - yum!
• This book is for those that fear sushi and also for those that already love sushi. Great ideas and techniques to get you motivated enough to make your own at home.
• So excited to try out different recipes. The food pictures makes me want to go out and grab some. Really great pictures, very vivid and interesting.
• So much more than sushi rolls! Wonderfully crafted dishes that I can't wait to try. Loaded with photos. Love it.
• Beautiful book, and the recipes look like they'll be delicious.
• Bought as a present and they loved it! Good informative book!

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Product details Paperback 320 pages Publisher W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (March 17, 2004) Language English ISBN-10 0393324818

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• Read this book only if you are prepared to realize that much of what you thought you knew about baseball is nonsense. This book is an amazing eye-opener about a then radical new way of managing a pro baseball team that allowed the dirt-poor Oakland A's to win as many games as the fat-cat NY Yankees. Using detailed statistical analysis created by baseball fans like Bill James who wanted to know how to make better teams in their fantasy baseball leagues, Oakland GM Billy Beane drafted or traded for players other teams considered sub-standard or worn-out and Oakland became a post-season threat despite having the second lowest payroll in the major leagues. Although the baseball establishment reacted with horror and contempt to having its time-honored methods of choosing players challenged, the approach used in Moneyball has been widely adopted by many teams including the Boston Red Sox who won the World Series shortly after doing so. Since reading this book I laugh every time I hear an announcer use the phrase, "productive out", knowing that over the long haul it's teams that don't trade outs for bases that win more games. The Moneyball approach remains controversial with many fans and baseball industry insiders--it's more fun to watch someone bunt a runner to second than it is to watch that hitter draw a walk--but the numbers show that over time the walks are more valuable to a team. Regardless of how much you agree with Bill James and Billy Beane, this is a terrific book that will make you really think about how the game of baseball works.
• Terrific read. For some reason, I didn't read it until 2016. It has a different perspective now after 13 years. We have already seen the affects of Moneyball and Sabermetrics on baseball. Theo Epstein seems to be the greatest beneficiary of the theory, the man who used sabermetrics and had a budget to spend. Two World Series victories, one for the Red Sox and another for the Cubs after many decades of losing. The Cubs didn't win the World Series in 2016; Theo Epstein was the winner. I liked reading Moneyball to follow the theories and careers of those who were the big players in the book. The afterward by Lewis gives a lot of insight into the reaction of baseball's old boy network, the old guard who rejected change.
• I decided to read this book after I got a nagging feeling that I am the only statistician in the US who hasn't read it. This review is aimed at those who are interested in quantitative performance evaluation or quantitative modeling in general.
  
  First, I'd like to thank Lewis for a book that is worth reading even for someone who has never learned the rules of the game and never will. Even if I had had a glimmer of interest in baseball per se before I read the book, it would have been extinguished for good anyway (read on to learn why).
  
  According to Lewis, for about a hundred years American baseball existed as a peculiar social club composed of GMs, scouts, baseball writers and commentators, and players who would often become one of the former. The first reason why The Club was special was that it was rarely run as a business. Consider Walter Haas, a former owner of Oakland Athletics. Haas was a great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss and coincidentally served as CEO of Levi Strauss & Co for almost 20 years. He was not shy of giving it back to the American society or at least to the most indispensable part of it, professional baseball players. As a result, in 1991 Oakland A's enjoyed the highest payroll in baseball while losing money for the owner. Unfortunately, that commendable manifestation of social responsibility was halted in 1995 when the new owners switched to a pro-business stance and slashed the payroll drastically.
  
  The new goal for the GM became to keep the team in the major league, while minimizing the ratio of payroll to the number of wins. The quest for how to run the most cost-effective team resulted in a number of fascinating discoveries. First, consider the process of drafting young players from high schools and colleges. The old scouts were used to some glaringly subjective player selection criteria, such as how cool the player's body looks ("selling jeans") or how concordant his facial features are with a great future in baseball ("The Good Face"). The "internal compass of an old baseball guy", directed them to look at the player and "imagine what he might become". They believed that they could judge and predict the player's performance simply by watching him. To be fair, the old school scouting worked fine but only assuming that the team's pockets were very deep. Indeed, that was often the case thanks to Walter Haas and other individuals who possessed similar amounts of wealth and social responsibility.
  
  Of course, different stats (foot speed, batting average, etc) were also considered, but none of the old guard had the desire, ability or means to assess how predictable such metrics are given the current information about the player. For instance, do young power hitters tend to develop precision over time or not? Are the stats of a high school player informative enough or does it make sense to ignore them and focus on the college players who have a longer history? Are there metrics that confuse skill and luck and contain no useful information even about the past performance, let alone the future?
  
  Further, suppose the future values of a measurable characteristic (e.g. foot speed, fastball velocity) can be predicted well, and we are fairly certain that luck and skill are not mixed up. So far so good, but exactly how much does that particular skill contribute to the ultimate objective, winning a game at the lowest cost? Say, if the future foot speed of the player is guaranteed to be as good as it has been, how much the team should be willing to pay for the player? If the answer is known, the GM can then perform some arbitrage by selling players whose characteristics are overpriced and buying those whose characteristics are underpriced.
  
  It may appear strange that those questions were not raised and addressed until after Billy Beane became the GM of Oakland Athletics in 1997. Apart from the philanthropic attitude of the team owners, there were other reasons why. Before the late 1970s, quantitative analysis of baseball data was both hard for the lack of computers and impractical because the players' salaries were not that high. Most importantly, the eventual adoption of quantitative performance evaluation methods revealed that the baseball data are extremely noisy. To extract some useful insights, one has to generalize from a large body of stats that no living scout or other baseball insider can keep in his head. Likewise, to see whether a given quantitative approach does (not) work, it's not enough to follow the career of a single player or observe the outcome of a single game.
  
  That nourished the perception that quantitative metrics are more or less useless and recoursing to one's "internal compass" works better when it's time to draft players and then decide how (not) to use them during the game. An example of such attitude is the scouts' belief that "if you see it once, it's there", which is a ringing endorsement of making a decision based on the sample size of one. Given how much the outcome of anything that happens on the field depends on luck, that's a kiss of death for good scouting, or at least for a cost-effective version of it.
  
  Undoubtedly, baseball teams vary in skill, but, according to the book, the contribution of skill to the outcome of an average game is about four times less than the contribution of luck. In particular, the number of games in playoffs is so small that luck doesn't cancel out in a series of five games, the worst team in the major league has a 15% chance to beat the best team. Because a team that loses in the playoffs cannot get the coveted World Series title it creates another psychological incentive for having little faith in the quantitative approach. To me it also means that if all of the noise were to disappear (and that's what "sabermetrics" is trying to achieve), the game would become far less fun to watch and talk about. There is not much thrill in observing how a slightly biased coin is flipped. Isn't that another reason why both the insiders and fans preferred to stick to the old ways instead of embracing the "performance scouting" and other insights offered by sabermetrics? If that's the case then The Club turns out to be far more rational and efficient than Lewis portrayed.
  
  Next, I'd like to explore the most important point made by Lewis bad as they may have been, the baseball statistics were probably far more accurate than anything used to measure the performance of people in many other lines of work, so ...? What immediately comes to my mind are the "scouting" (hiring) practices of Microsoft and Google that included the so-called brainteaser interviews that were administered for 10 to 20 years (see Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? and How Would You Move Mount Fuji?). To me it has always been clear that being good at brainteasers does not predict one's future job performance unless the job amounts to solving brainteasers. Both companies banned the practice in the end, even though some copycats are still lurking around. The point, however, is why it lasted for as long as it did. Apparently, the engineers at Microsoft and Google are no fools. They figured out that the brainteasers fail at achieving their purported objective many years ago. Why continue to use them, then? Moneyball provides a plausible explanation. Companies are not only about doing business but sometimes about being a certain social club. The club entry requirements can be as arbitrary as anything. If they appear, to put it mildly, irrational, that is to be expected every now and then. Therefore, the real question is not "Are you smart enough to work at Google?" but "Are you a good fit for the Google social club?". Regardless of what the answer is, it has nothing to do with one's intelligence or the absence thereof.
  
  Now back to baseball. If you have some quantitative background I could highly recommend "Stein's Paradox in Statistics", a paper published by Prof. Efron in 1977 (incidentally, that was the year Bill James published his first Baseball Abstract). The rather ancient article is quite in line with what I learned from Moneyball the amount of noise in the baseball stats is substantial and the players are a lot more similar to each other than it appears to the public and even the insiders. It looks like my background in Statistics, combined with what I learned from the book, made it impossible to enjoy the game the way millions of fans do. Nevertheless, I managed to derive a lot of value from Moneyball and I wish you the same.
• Very interesting book that flies by. It is so easy to read that you can almost pardon's Michael Lewis' penchant for perpetuating the hyperbole of others and contributing exaggeration of his own. You can easily see how the added flair and drama makes the book more interesting for a mass audience. You can also excuse the fact that the book doesn't actually point out the answer to the original question. Why were the Oakland A's able to win so many games on a small budget? It turns out that was a little bit of skill but mostly luck. They got lucky with their pre-moneyball pitchers Zito, Mulder and Hudson.
  
  Despite the fact that Lewis doesn't highlight this anti-climactic conclusion on his own, the book still has enough information for the reader to get there. It is ironic that this parallels the reason Bill James' departed from Baseball Abstract and that is mentioned in the book. There is too much focus on the details that don't matter. The high level narrative and explanation are more important. Budget matters. You can get a slight advantage by exploiting inefficiencies but this takes a long time to prove out due to limited data points the out-sized impact luck has. There are lots of little nuggets of information like that hiding in this book that make it worth reading.

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Product details Paperback 176 pages Publisher Crossway; 2 edition (September 17, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1433567148

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• Women of the Word is the first of Jen Wilkin's books that I read and I have to say, it has revolutionized how I look at the Word of God. In Women of the Word, Jen clearly and succinctly explains why all Christians (not just pastors and teachers) should study the Word of God. On page 45 she writes,
  
  "Both false teachers and secular humanist rely on biblical ignorance for their messages to take root, and the modern church has proven fertile ground for those messages."
  
  I could not agree more! She goes on to explain how to go about studying the Word in a way that is effective and practical. Wilkin teaches how to study God's Word with purpose, perspective, patience, process, and prayer. She gives a detailed description (including pictures!) of how she writes and marks so that the reader has a good understanding of it. I also LOVE the fact that Jen doesn't claim that everyone in the church is a teacher. She reminds readers that teachers will be held to a higher standard (James 31) and that we need to ensure that we are making disciples of the Word not fans of the teacher.
  
  Overall, I would give Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin a solid A+. I think that every women's Bible study group should read through this book before anything else to ensure that they really are learning the Word with their hearts and minds equally. I also think that this book would be a great resource for a spiritually young believer. I wouldn't recommend it for a brand new believer but someone that is ready to learn and grow on their own could greatly benefit from this methodology
• This book is what I have spent years searching for. If you are tired of funny stories and mood management tips dressed up in out of context scripture and called Bible Study, this book is for you. Jen Wilkin expertly shows you how to build a foundational knowledge of the Bible in her warm and engaging way. The Bible study skills taught in this book are so practical you will walk away saying, “Why didn’t I know this?” This should be taught to every believer as early as possible so they can know why they believe what they believe, and come to know and love the glorious God of the Bible.
• Once bitten, twice shy. That pretty much describes my response to most major marketing campaigns by Christian publishers. So often I’ve found that the best books are the ones that appear with the least fuss, and that the ones carried in on the back of a major marketing wave prove to be disappointing. But not always.
  
  Jen Wilkin’s Women of the Word has been the beneficiary of some major marketing efforts. It was the talk of this year’s Gospel Coalition National Conference for Women and has been pushed heavily in the blogosphere. And I’m glad to say that it proved my skepticism wrong—it is an excellent little book.
  
  Wilkin loves God’s Word and she loves to teach others to love it as well. Her book is designed to awaken that same love in others, and especially in other women. It is, after all, meant to call women to the Word so they can be women of the Word.
  
  She opens biographically, telling about her growing passion for the Bible—for reading it, for knowing it, for teaching it to others. She explains that the book’s purpose is “to teach you not merely a doctrine, concept, or story line, but a study method that will allow you to open up the Bible on your own. It intends to challenge you to think and to grow, using tools accessible to all of us, whether we hold a high school diploma or a seminary degree, whether we have minutes or hours to give to it each day.”
  
  Before she gets to a method of studying the Bible, she tells about two turnarounds she had to make in her life, where she replaced backward approaches to Bible study with better ones. The first was to allow the Bible to speak of God. She had been approaching the Bible as a book about her, a book answering the question “Who am I?” more than “Who is God?” The second turnaround was thinking that she should allow her heart, rather than her mind, to guide her study of the Bible. She let her feelings dictate what she read and how she read it instead of first allowing it to transform her mind. She wants her readers to know that they cannot love what their minds do not know.
  
  With those foundations in place, she makes a plea for biblical literacy and follows it with a five-part method meant to bring it about. Her description of this method, along with examples of it in action, consume the bulk of the book. She teachers her readers to study with purpose, perspective, patience, process and prayer. This method is simple enough to be practical, but significant enough to lead to deep understanding, reflection, and application. She closes with some guidance for teachers and a final call to a commitment to the Word.
  
  While I am not the target audience for the book (I don’t ever anticipate being a woman of the Word), I found it very enjoyable nonetheless. I read it at a good time in life—a time in which I am thoroughly enjoying reading God’s Word—and it fired up my love for God, and his Word, all the more.
  
  While Wilkin’s method is sound, I also enjoyed her emphases on approaching the Bible intellectually ahead of emotionally, of training the mind to train the heart. This is a missing emphasis in too many books on reading the Scriptures and, in particular, books targeted at women. The point is not that everyone who reads the Bible ought to be an outright intellectual, but that Bible-reading cannot bypass the mind.
  
  Women of the Word is a helpful little book that I cheerfully commend. (And, I should add, one Aileen read before I did and enjoyed every bit as much.)

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The Collector A Navajo Nation Mystery edition by R Allen Chappell Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

• Continuing his tradition of impeccable research and in depth personal knowledge of the Navajo Chappell's 9th Navajo Nation mystery is a beautiful and spellbinding spin on the high end Native American art trade. This is a wonderful who dunnit --Chappell really had me guessing right up to the spectacular end. Billionaire collectors competing to satisfy their lust for the best leave Lucy Tallwoman's life hanging by a thread. New York city and the Navajo Reservation may be thousands of miles apart but Chappell brings them together so well, it seems Charlie, Thomas and Harley have finally met their match. Though his work always honors the tradition Tony Hillerman began, to me Chappell's characters always evoke the natural authenticity of a Steinbeck novel. The luck for us is that we get to know these characters better with each new book. My husband and I have gotten to know and love them well. The sense of humour and original scenarios are purely original to Chappell. I've found no writer quite like him in the many threads he so seamlessly pulls together. I highly recommend Chappell's entire series and look forward to book 10! I agree with others that you should start the series at the beginning so you may enjoy the journey of getting to know this excellent cast of characters.
• This book is my second place favorite in the series. I found it to be very realistic in detailing investigative operations and law enforcement procedures. This sort of attention to detail helps to set stories such as this one a cut above the rest in the crowded mystery genre field.
  
  The storyline is good, as are the mystery and thriller elements, which makes the book hard to put down. The book also gets high marks for accurately in depicting Navajo culture, conduct, reasoning, and mannerisms. It is all around a solid, interesting read.
• R. Allen Chappell, always entertaining, just keeps getting better. From the moment we see Lucy Tallwoman at her loom, we know we’re in for a treat from a writer who understands Navajo art and its appeal across far-flung parts of the globe. And when Charlie Yazzie, Harley Ponyboy and Billy Red Clay appear on the scene, we know there will be spice and more than a dash of impetuousness added to the stew. Throw in an FBI specialist in art theft and art fraud, and everything comes to a boil. This complex and satisfying picture of those who live the Big Rez in the traditional way will reward all those who love novels set in the gorgeous, scenic, and sometimes dangerous four corners area.
• I read all of the very well written 5 star reviews about this book and agree wholeheartedly and cannot think of anything to add. I suggest reading these wonderful books in order so the beloved characters' lives will progress in order. Each book is to me better than Tony Hillerman's books. There is so much more rich detail. Not just the Navajo religious traditions are described, but all facets of the culture and each characters' thoughts about every action taken. The author makes you feel as if you were right there in the middle of it all. Chappell is getting better and better. This book is superb. Enjoy.
• So happy Ron has created this great series for his loyal readers! These readers discover more about the Navajo people with every new book in this series. Keep up the good job!
• I have read this entire series and can hardly wait for next book. I love hanging out with Charlie, Harley, and Thomas. Thanks.
• Another enjoyable book in this series. I read it as quickly as I could. Character development focused on "the bad guys" who will not appear in future books. The regular characters did not seem to have as much to do with solving the murder. The plot has weaknesses such as murder clues never being explained, the final disposition of recovered art, and an indication of whether the artists ever received any justice. The last chapters appear to be out of order with events occurring six months later, and the next page jumping back to the hospital scene after the shootout. This edition needs editing; misplaced commas throughout.
• I always look forward to the next book from this author. I have read all of his and they are always excellent. A great batch of new bad guys and a consistent bunch of old established good guys make his books a delight tom read. An excellent writer!!!!

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