Archives for the ‘Books’ Category

Book Review: “See No Evil” by Robert Baer

By lukebrown • Sep 10th, 2003 • Category: Books

(Crown Publishers – 284 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown
The momentous failure of intelligence agencies, in particular the CIA, to prevent the [...]



Book Review: “Karma Cola” by Gita Mehta

By lukebrown • Sep 9th, 2003 • Category: Books

(Penguin – 193 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown
Sometimes a book is published that is virtually unreviewable. Not because it is a mess, but rather [...]



Book Review: “Shah of Shahs”

By lukebrown • Jun 10th, 2003 • Category: Books

Ryszard Kapuscinski (Vintage Books – 152 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown
The reporter studies a photo of a group of men standing on a street in [...]



Book Review: “The Mystery of Capital”

By lukebrown • May 10th, 2003 • Category: Books

by Hernando de Soto

(Bantam Press – 243 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown
The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its hour of crisis. So begins [...]



Book Review – “Crimes Against Humanity” by Geoffrey Robertson

By Rob Wood • May 1st, 2003 • Category: Books

(2000) (Penguin – 512 pages)
Reviewer – Rob Wood
Crimes Against Humanity, by Geoffrey Robertson, is far from a light bed-time read. The famous [...]



Book Review: “With Lawrence in Arabia” by Lowell Thomas

By Rob Wood • Mar 10th, 2003 • Category: Books

(1924) (Hutchinson & Co. – 317 pages)
Reviewer – Rob Wood

“With Lawrence in Arabia” by Lowell Thomas is one of the classic adventure biographies [...]



Book Review: “India: A History” by John Keay

By lukebrown • Jan 10th, 2003 • Category: Books

(HarperCollins – 576 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown

India: a history, by John Keay, attempts to chart the course of the history of India from around [...]