Taming the chaos in my brain one post at a time
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My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
I bought this on impulse one day at Powell’s. It had been over ten years since I last reads a Greg Iles book, Black Cross I think, and I really enjoyed that, as well as Spandau Phoenix. I figured I couldn’t go wrong and I was right.
This book is a taut page turner with a complex plot. The characters are well fleshed out. The good guys are likable and the bad guys are assholes.
I couldn’t put this one down.
Legacy of Ashes: the History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a must read for anyone interested in how the U.S got to where it is now with its foreign policy.
The book, dense with facts, is a sobering read. It will pull the scales from your eyes.
It broadened my historical perspective and, while I’ve never been subject to Bush Derangement Syndrome, it made me realize that Bush’s foreign policy is very much a function of the incompetency of the CIA, an incompetency which stretches back to its founding and thus has tainted the foreign policy decisions of EVERY president since Truman.
