Framing the Dialogue

Posts Tagged ‘war on terror’

Portrait of a Spy

About a month ago I get my edition of Costco Connection in the mail and was excited!  No there’s wasn’t a sale on batteries (actually there was), but news of the upcoming release of Daniel Silva’s new novel, Portrait of a Spy, feature heroic Gabriel Allon.  I fastidiously set the date on my Droid calendar and planned to drive to Costco on the release day to pick up my copy.  I arranged my reading plan so that I could start the book that night.  I was excited on the drive that day.  When I got there the book was no where in sight.  Frustrated, I rechecked my calendar and it was July 12 yet there was no book.  I used the power of my Verizon unlimited data package to search Mr. Silva’s website only to find out that I had gotten the date wrong and was a week early,

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A P.C. War

Whether you want to call it a “war on terror” as George W. Bush would or an “overseas contingency operation” as our current president prefers, we are at war.  At least those who are waging battle against us are at war.  I am not sure that politicians in Washington are at war or that the general public quite feels the war.  This war almost came home to us again on Christmas Day with a Nigerian terrorist.

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Ghost Plane

I think that this is now the second book in a row that I have read based on a recommendation by Glenn Beck.  Maybe he will eventually get his own sticker like the Oprah Book Club, but I doubt it.

I had been reading some deeper books lately and was looking forward to an adventure novel.  When I started reading Ghost Plane, it was not what I expected.  Stephen Greyprovides a disturbing tale of the United States’ involvement in torture as part of the war on terror.

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