Over the past few days as I've been doing a bit of vacationing I've been reading. A couple of good reads:
The Man who Invented Christmas. The book is basically a short biography of Charles Dickens with a strong emphasis on is classic, A Christmas Carol. If you enjoy getting to know great authors and their works in a very readable format this is for you.
How to Break a Terrorist. This great book tells how interrogators in Iraq have used sympathetic techniques to bring down some of the most powerful terrorists. It reads like a Tom Clancy novel while telling a true story. Given all the concerns over torture that have been hitting the press lately, it's well worth the read. You can get a bit of the flavor of the book in an interview by another interrogator who used similar techniques.
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