There Should Be Investigations
No I’m not talking about the travesty that seems to be developing in Florida with the witch hunt and show trial of George Zimmerman. Oh he may be guilty of many things…there has just not been enough “official” (i.e. real) facts that have come out into the public to convict him. In this country, up until a few years ago, that was the role of our judicial system. The investigations should be about how, under the Regime of Barack Obama, an American company that had been the biggest in the world has been overtaken by a Chinese company.
and it certainly will not be my last. I’d liken 
to a cross between John Grisham with the legal wrangling and Tom Clancy with his military insight and action. The story begins when terrorists hijack an American merchant ship, the U.S. President acts passively, the Speaker of the House disagrees and the story’s hero and assistant to the Speaker finds a way to overide the Executive Office. I found the novel extremely interesting and it was pretty much edge-of-my-seat towards the end. In fact…don’t tell my boss, but I lost track of time yesterday at lunch and read past my lunch break.
menace has world leaders stumped until Alex Hawke returns as Ted Bell’s agent provocateur fighting the unknown and very powerful foe. Phantom has all that you would expect from a 
and will grudgingly acknowledge that it got better in the second half. Perhaps I expected too much? The essence of the book is that what is “stealing” is that we are shaped by the world around us and our “art” is derived from our experiences. For books that I read I usually look to novels for entertainment and non-fiction to learn something. Austin Kleon offered a little entertainment and no education. Perhaps you should steal his book rather than buying it like I did.
the investigation dips into the seedy underworld of black market of stolen artifacts and brings Browne together with an elusive former CIA agent who now works as a specialist acquiring works of art.