by Barry Eisler
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/18/wikileaks-cables-turkey-military-arrests
A BBC documentary on Operation Gladio.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=16921
And a book on Gladio.
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119640.pdf
Behind TV Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html
News Corp press properties as the extortion arm of a global conglomerate.
http://www.alternet.org/story/151713/the_big_lie_at_the_heart_of_rupert_murdoch%27s_media_empire/
Corporatism as the American Way: Booz Allen, the NSA, the Pentagon.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/01/08/mcconnell
The metastasis of Top Secret America.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/
Golden parachutes for top military brass becoming defense contractors.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/12/26/defense_firms_lure_retired_generals
Anti-Islamic Center fervor produces a radical Islam PR bonanza.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/world/21muslim.html
How many secret wars is America really fighting?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR2010060304965.html
http://www.alternet.org/story/151904/our_commando_war_in_120_countries:_uncovering_the_military’s_secret_operations_in_the_ obama_era/
Russian False Flag Attacks and Aftermath.
http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2010/03/23/vladimir-putin/
Excellent run-down of Israel’s botched Dubai hit.
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201101/the-dubai-jobmossad-assassination-hamas
Domestic use of drones equipped with night vision, infrared, and thermal imaging.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/are_unmanned_drones_coming_to_a_police_dept_near_y.php
Drone aircraft used for domestic surveillance.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/2011-01-13-drones_N.htm
The August 6, 2001 President’s Daily Brief warning “Bin Laden Determined To Strike in U.S.”
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/80601pdb.html
The growing public/private domestic surveillance partnership.
http://www.privacylives.com/washington-examiner-d-c-expanding-public-surveillance-camera-net/2011/01/24/
A huge proportion of government Internet censorship is devoted to blogs.
http://yuxiyou.net/open/
JSOC, The Knights of Malta, and crusader challenge coins.
http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/02/23/pulitzer-prize-winner-seymourhersh-and-the-men-who-want-him-committed/
Attempted coup against Franklin Roosevelt, and Congressional Committee to investigate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
TSA doing searches at trains, buses, etc. Even cars.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/06/tsa-swarms-8000-bus-stations-public-transit-systems-yearly
The New York Times spikes stories when the government asks it to.
http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/12/01/the-war-on-wikileaks-andthe-radical-theory-of-breaking-conspiracies/
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/1/exclusivebushs_law_eric_lichtblau_on_exposing
http://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/30/the-nyts-favor-and-fear/
Precedent for a commission composed of officials who have demonstrated their integrity—here, by resisting calls to torture.
http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/6067/prmID/172
The Salt Pit.
http://harpers.org/archive/2010/03/hbc-90006791
Camp No.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368
The Beslan school hostage crisis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis
The government’s astonishingly weak and shoddy case against the anthrax suspects.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/07/19/anthrax/index.html
How easy it is in Washington to corrupt a wannabe player—this one, Harold Koh.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/29/ko
George Carlin’s more-relevant-than-ever take on who owns America and what they want.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
Two videos of the brachial stun in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00je-NmU4Tg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcaOr1TBA1w
Why is John Rain so paranoid about mobile phone tracking?
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/global-phone-tracking/all/1
Horton’s speech in the Rose Garden draws on certain rhetorical techniques described in more detail in The Ass Is A Poor Receptacle For The Head.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050O7VLW
And for a real life equivalent in Norway.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/head-of-norways-delta-force-says-finding-boat-to-island-retreat-caused-no-realdelays/2011/07/27/gIQAqtkOcI_story.html
Novel Air Capability, the inspiration for the drone in the book.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/7-next-generation-uavs-0855/1
A real world example of the way narrative is used to shape public perceptions of terrorism.
http://electronicintifada.net/blog/benjamin-doherty/how-clueless-terrorism-expert-set-media-suspicion-muslims-after-oslo-horror
Dox’s Knight’s Armament SR-25 sniper rifle in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yv1uC3qZkk
AFTERSHOCKS
If you’re fond of Japan, as I am, I hope you’ll consider buying a copy of 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories From The Japan Earthquake, with a foreword I was humbled to be asked to contribute. One hundred percent of the purchase price goes to relief efforts in Japan.
Or download the Kindle edition for free and consider a donation to the Japanese Red Cross through QuakeBook.org. Thanks.
STIRRED
by Blake Crouch and J.A. Konrath
In her twenty-five-year career with the Chicago police department, Lt. Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels has seen the worst of humanity. She’s lost loved ones and narrowly escaped death on countless occasions—and she has the nightmares to prove it. Jack is the best the Chicago PD has to offer, and she has brought some of the city’s most notorious criminals to their knees. All, that is, but one…
Luther Kite is evil incarnate. Depraved and inhumane, he takes life for the sheer pleasure of watching his terrified victims die. He is a monster among monsters, taunting and frustrating law enforcement every bloody step of the way. But when the kills become too easy, he sets his sight on the one victim who can offer him a true challenge, the only woman who is a match for his extraordinary skill: Jack Daniels. And when it comes to killing Daniels, only Kite’s very best work will do.
Fast-paced, suspenseful, and darkly comic, Stirred brings together J.A. Konrath’s Jack Daniels and Blake Crouch’s Luther Kite for a final heart-stopping showdown that will leave readers reeling!
http://www.amazon.com/Stirred-Jacqueline-Daniels-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0050KIRDC
RUN
by Blake Crouch
For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Thomas Harris, picture this: a landscape of American genocide…
5 DAYS AGO
A rash of bizarre murders swept the country…
Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected.
4 DAYS AGO
The murders increased ten-fold…
3 DAYS AGO
The President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace…
2 DAYS AGO
The killers began to mobilize…
YESTERDAY
All the power went out…
TONIGHT
They’re reading th
e names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening over the battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they’ve just read yours.
Your name is Jack Colclough. You have a wife, a daughter, and a young son. You live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. You don’t know why, but you don’t have time to think about that any more.
You only have time to….
RUN
http://www.amazon.com/Run-ebook/dp/B004PGNF0W
THE DELILAH COMPLEX
by M.J. Rose
As one of New York’s top sex therapists, Dr. Morgan Snow sees everything from the abused to the depraved. The Butterfield Institute is the sanctuary where she tries to heal these battered souls.
The Scarlet Society is a secret club of twelve powerful and sexually adventurous women. But when a photograph of the body of one of the men they’re recruited to dominate—strapped to a gurney, the number 1 inked on the sole of his foot—is sent to the New York Times, they are shocked and frightened. Unable to cope with the tragedy, the women turn to Dr. Morgan Snow. But what starts out as grief counseling quickly becomes a murder investigation, with any one of the twelve women a potential suspect.
The case leads Detective Noah Jordan—a man with whom Morgan has shared a brief, intense connection—to her office. He fears the number on the man’s foot hints that the killings have just begun. With her hands tied by her professional duty, Morgan is dangerously close to the demons in her own mind—and the flesh-and-blood killer.
“…M.J. Rose is a bold, unflinching writer and her resolute honesty puts her in a class by herself.”
—Laura Lippman
“Utterly fascinating!…This is one book that will keep you glued to your seat.”
—New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner
http://www.amazon.com/Delilah-Complex-MIRA-M-Rose/dp/0778322157
Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan International Judo Center along the way. Eisler’s bestselling thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year, have been included in numerous “Best Of” lists, and have been translated into nearly twenty languages. Eisler lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and, when he’s not writing novels, blogs about torture, civil liberties, and the rule of law. For more information please go to www.barryeisler.com.
Table of Contents
part one
chapter one
chapter two
chapter three
chapter four
chapter five
chapter six
chapter seven
chapter eight
chapter nine
chapter ten
chapter eleven
chapter twelve
chapter thirteen
part two
chapter fourteen
chapter fifteen
chapter sixteen
chapter seventeen
chapter eighteen
part three
chapter nineteen
chapter twenty
chapter twenty-one
chapter twenty-two
chapter twenty-three
chapter twenty-four
chapter twenty-five
chapter twenty-six
chapter twenty-seven
chapter twenty-eight
chapter twenty-nine
chapter thirty
chapter thirty-one
chapter thirty-two
chapter thirty-three
author’s note
acknowledgments
sources
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