Deborah Scroggins “Wanted Women”
February 1st, 2012
Two young women who, at first glance, could not be more opposite from each other, actually have much in common, says the veteran journalist who has written a dual biography of them.
Deborah Scroggins‘s book “Wanted Women” illuminates an entire generation of Muslims through the lives of activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali and religious extremist Aafia Siddiqui.
One is a martyr, the other a she-devil — but who’s who depends entirely on whom you’re asking.
Siddiqui was branded “Lady al-Qaeda” for her involvement with extremist factions. Hirsi Ali has defiantly renounced the Muslim fundamentalism in which she was raised, to become a darling of the anti-Islam extremists.
Scroggins says she came to this story through a coincidence of sorts….
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Walter Mosley “All I Did Was Shoot My Man”
January 27th, 2012
A few years back, in a different life, Leonid McGill framed Zella Grisham and helped send her to prison for a crime she didn’t do.
Now, as the story begins in Walter Mosley‘s fourth McGill novel “All I Did Was Shoot My Man,” McGill is hired to help Zella get her life back after prison.
Trouble is, there are those who are, shall we say, very uncomfortable that Zella is free.
And Leonid’s plate is full of personal problems, as well, all of which challenge him on every page to stay the new course he has so earnestly set for himself.
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Serious Charges Face Author of CIA Memoir
January 24th, 2012
His 2010 memoir was called “The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror.” But now the federal government charges that John Kiriakou didn’t keep enough of his life in the CIA secret.
Kiriakou told Eye on Books in 2010 that he is “just an ordinary guy.” But federal prosecutors say he violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and the Espionage Act. They say he illegally disclosed the name of another covert CIA officer to a reporter, and separately that he lied to the CIA’s Publications Review Board to persuade them to let him publish “The Reluctant Spy.”
Kiriakou has been freed on $250,000 bond after appearing in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia on Monday.
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Brad Taylor “All Necessary Force”
January 20th, 2012
Somewhere in America, there’s about to be a terrorist attack, a blockbuster assault on a critical homeland resource that could cripple the nation — unless Pike Logan and his super-secret Taskforce can stop it, in Brad Taylor‘s new thriller “All Necessary Force.”
Taskforce’s job is to obtain the crucial information that America’s better-known and more high-profile intel operations can’t.
As Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill get deeper into their mission, however, it turns out there are two plots in the works. And they don’t have much time to stop them.
The story is informed by Taylor’s real-life experiences with Delta Force.
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Thomas Caplan “The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen”
January 18th, 2012
A former covert operative turned movie star returns to the life of espionage once again — and with a huge, world-saving mission — in Thomas Caplan‘s thriller “The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen.”
Ty Hunter is a strong, handsome, charismatic star. But the task before him is a lot tougher than acting. There are some stolen nuclear warheads, which are about to be acquired by some very, very bad people. Hunter must stop them.
Tommy Caplan is a lifelong thriller reader, as is his college roommate, and the man who contributed the introduction to this novel, former President Bill Clinton. And while readers and reviewers instantly see parallels with Ian Fleming and Robert Ludlum, Caplan says there was another source of inspiration for him.
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