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Title: Race Against Evil: The Secret Missions of the Interpol Agent Who Tracked the World's Most Sinister Criminals by David Race Bannon ISBN: 0-88282-231-4 Publisher: New Horizon Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.84 (63 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: 007 it ain't!
Comment: After 20 years Bannon tells it all. This is a lean, taut and gripping book. It paints an essentially bleak portrait of the human condition but leaves room for individuals to act nobly and courageously. The book was published in 2003 but is mainly set in the early 1980s. David Race Bannon, a worldweary but experienced Interpol agent relates his early career and discovers the love for family which has so obviously been missing in his life. The true-life characterisations and Bannon's eye for personal detail help give the book it's gorgeously bleak feel, and of course Bannon wants to make the point that the morally relativistic world of espionage is inherently desensitising and dehumanising. The book poses the question "Are there any good guys left or have all sunk to the lowest common denominator?"
Overall, this is one of the best books I have read. Although there is little in the way of Bond-style action, the psychological twists and turns in it make for a more genuine, tense story. If you are looking for an alternative to contemporary fictional Tom Clancy-style tech-spy-thrillers or cliched true-crime potboilers, Bannon is a must-read. To say more about the book would be to spoil too much. Let's just say as well as the deeper questions it posits, it has a fast-paced, thrilling storyline which may even appeal to lovers of lower grade spy thrillers. Buy it! You won't regret it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautifully written book in tragic circumstances.
Comment: This book was extremely well written. It is not sentimental in any way, but outlines very well and plainly the moods and emotions that David Race Bannon went through while coming to terms with his friends' deaths and the miserable evil of child sex slavery - a trade that by all acounts should never happen, which makes it all the harder to bear. This story also shows the horrors when the intelligence profession goes 'above the law', which I am sure happens not just in France. Hopefully, because of this book, people will be more aware of what can happen and will be more willing to challenge the intelligence profession than has been the case thus far. This is a very well written and moving story and once you start the book you will not want to put it down. I read it in a Saturday afternoon.
Rating: 5
Summary: Life Validation
Comment: David Bannon's book, Race Against Evil, is a validation of his decision to give up Interpol and seek a deeper bond with his family. He is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in life, be they those of raising a family, working for the good of oneself and one's neighbors, protecting innocents, redemption, loving. His straightforward search for a life connected to his daughter, for marriage as a sacrament and family life, for a peace with today that overcomes the horror of yesterday, affirms a style that is resonant with the authentic. For all his earthiness, Mr. Bannon is a sophisticated, philosophical writer whose prose shines with the wisdom of one who has thought deeply about the terror and wonder of life.
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Title: Tea With Terrorists: Who They Are, Why They Kill, What Will Stop Them by Craig Winn, Ken Power ISBN: 0971448116 Publisher: Cricketsong Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: In the Company of Good and Evil: A True Story of Seduction and Betrayal by Ken Power, Craig Winn ISBN: 0971448108 Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Pub. Date: 04 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Haunting of the Presidents: A Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency by Joel Martin, William J. Birnes ISBN: 0451208048 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Master of Disguise : My Secret Life in the CIA by Antonio J. Mendez ISBN: 0060957913 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Man Who Warned America: The Life and Death of John O'Neill, the FBI's Embattled Counterterror Warrior by Murray Weiss ISBN: 0060508221 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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