Monthly Archives: February 2005

Blue Blood – Edward Conlon According to the NYPD website, the New York Police Department currently employs 39,110 cops, a force larger then the standing armies of some countries. At least one of them is a solid writer. Edward Conlon’s … Continue reading →

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 – Steve Coll “When everyone is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before.”– Kim, Rudyard Kipling The Great Game … Continue reading →

Wolves Eat Dogs – Martin Cruz Smith Cynical, melancholy Moscow special investigator Arkardy Renko has a serious problem. One of Moscow’s newly minted billionaires has taken a fatal plunge off of a twenty-story condominium – suicide or murder? As Renko … Continue reading →