Books on Careless

Books on Careless https://n.hieronymus.uk/blog/books/ Recent content in Books on Careless Hugo en-US Copyright © 2020, Jane Doe. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Safe Passage https://n.hieronymus.uk/safe-passage/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://n.hieronymus.uk/safe-passage/ <p><img src="https://pub-0509df5f3cfd4af996378bce549dbf15.r2.dev/613TMhedLOL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" alt="Dr. Kori Schake Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony"></p> <p>Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony by Dr. Kori Schake</p> <p>History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. What made that transition uniquely cooperative and nonviolent? Does it offer lessons to guide policy as the United States faces its own challengers to the order it has enforced since the 1940s? To answer these questions, Kori Schake explores nine points of crisis or tension between Britain and the United States, from the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to the establishment of the unequal “special relationship” during World War II.</p> 2666 by Roberto Bolaño https://n.hieronymus.uk/2666-by-roberto-bola%C3%B1o/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://n.hieronymus.uk/2666-by-roberto-bola%C3%B1o/ <p><img src="https://pub-0509df5f3cfd4af996378bce549dbf15.r2.dev/2666-1327x2048.jpg" alt="2666 by Roberto Bolaño"></p> <p>A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. Ya allí, Pelletier y Espinoza se enteran de que la ciudad es desde años atrás escenario de una larga cadena de crímenes: en los vertederos aparecen cadáveres de mujeres con señales de haber sido violadas y torturadas. Es el primer asomo de la novela a sus procelosos caudales, repletos de personajes memorables cuyas historias, a caballo entre la risa y el horror, abarcan dos continentes e incluyen un vertiginoso travelling por la historia europea del siglo XX. 2666 confirma el veredicto de Susan Sontag: “el más influyente y admirado novelista en lengua española de su generación. Su muerte, a los cincuenta años, es una gran pérdida para la literatura”.</p> All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr https://n.hieronymus.uk/all-the-light-we-cannot-see-by-anthony-doerr/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://n.hieronymus.uk/all-the-light-we-cannot-see-by-anthony-doerr/ <p><img src="https://pub-0509df5f3cfd4af996378bce549dbf15.r2.dev/all-the-light-we-cannot-see-9781501173219_xlg.jpg" alt="All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr"></p> <p>Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.</p> <p>In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.</p> Dark Alliance The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb https://n.hieronymus.uk/dark-alliance-the-cia-the-contras-and-the-crack-cocaine-explosion-by-gary-webb/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://n.hieronymus.uk/dark-alliance-the-cia-the-contras-and-the-crack-cocaine-explosion-by-gary-webb/ <p><img src="https://pub-0509df5f3cfd4af996378bce549dbf15.r2.dev/9781609806217.jpg" alt="Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb"></p> <p>Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, “Kill the Messenger,” to be be released in Fall 2014</p> <p>In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras.</p> One Nation Under Blackmail https://n.hieronymus.uk/one-nation-under-blackmail/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://n.hieronymus.uk/one-nation-under-blackmail/ <p><img src="https://pub-0509df5f3cfd4af996378bce549dbf15.r2.dev/81GE0343c%2BL._SL1500_.jpg" alt="One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Alyse Webb"></p> <p><img src="https://pub-0509df5f3cfd4af996378bce549dbf15.r2.dev/one-nation-under-blackmail-vol-1.jpg" alt="One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Vol. 2 by Whitney Alyse Webb"></p> <p>One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence and organized crime directly developed the sexual blackmail tactics and networks that would later enable the sexual blackmail operation and other crimes of deceased pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Other books on Jeffrey Epstein focus on the depraved nature of his crimes, his wealth, and his most famous/politically-connected friends and acquaintances. This book, in contrast, reveals the extent to which Epstein’s activities were state-sponsored through an exploration of his intelligence connections.</p> Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman https://n.hieronymus.uk/rise-and-kill-first-by-ronen-bergman/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://n.hieronymus.uk/rise-and-kill-first-by-ronen-bergman/ <p><img src="https://pub-0509df5f3cfd4af996378bce549dbf15.r2.dev/Rise-and-Kill-First-Ronen-Bergman.jpg" alt="Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman"></p> <p>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first definitive history of Israel’s targeted killing programs, which have shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the larger world—from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter.”</p> <p>“An exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject . . . full of shocking moments, surprising disturbances in a narrative full of fateful twists and unintended consequences.”—The New York Times</p> The Franklin Cover-Up by John DeCamp https://n.hieronymus.uk/the-franklin-cover-up-by-john-decamp/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://n.hieronymus.uk/the-franklin-cover-up-by-john-decamp/ <p><img src="https://pub-0509df5f3cfd4af996378bce549dbf15.r2.dev/71i21W6VGKL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" alt="The Franklin Cover-Up by John DeCamp"></p> <p>The shut-down of Omaha, Nebraska’s Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, raided by federal agencies in November 1988, sent shock waves all the way to Washington, D.C. $40 million was missing. The credit union’s manager: Republican Party activist Lawrence E. “Larry” King, Jr., behind whose rise to fame and riches stood powerful figures in Nebraska politics and business, and in the nation’s capital.</p> <p>In the face of opposition from local and state law enforcement, from the FBI, and from the powerful Omaha World-Herald newspaper, a special Franklin committee of the Nebraska Legislature launched its own probe. What looked like a financial swindle, soon exploded into a hideous tale of drugs, Iran-Contra money-laundering, a nationwide child abuse ring, and ritual murder.</p> What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Stories https://n.hieronymus.uk/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-love-stories/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://n.hieronymus.uk/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-love-stories/ <p><img src="https://pub-0509df5f3cfd4af996378bce549dbf15.r2.dev/71eEjilZwCL._SL1200_.jpg" alt="What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Stories"></p> <p>The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman.</p> <p>“Raymond Carver’s America is … clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories…. [Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own, like no other except that very world, as Wordsworth said, which is the world to all of us.” —The New York Times Book Review</p>