The State of Africa by Martin Meredith as well as Good Morning, Midnight by Reginald Hill (detective story)
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Gods Gachupines and Gringos -- A People's History of México by Richard Grabman
The Prince of Darkness by Robert Novak
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just finished tom rob smith "Child 44". It's ok as a thriller -tightly paced- altho i don't know if he really has a plausible inside track on the subjective world of russians in 1953. As i went on it felt more like a post-communist westerner describing how he thought people whould have thought / reacted...
finished charles mcnarry's "Christopher's Ghosts". OK thriller. 7 out of 10.
started then quickly abandoned John King's "Skinheads" - i never knew UK skinheads were so obsessed with brandname clothing and shoes. Boring as hell.
Started Peter Carey's "His Illegal Self". Did about 50 pages. Dropped it.Maybe i'll return...
and just finished the best popular book i ever read on moroccan psyche : Orin Hargraves "Morocco" in the "Cultureshock" series published by Marshall Cavendish. I never heard of this series before but if the other 50+ volumes are anything as good as Hargraves, its worth checking out. The book is a reprint of something written in 1995 by an ex-Peace Corps volunteer. Very useful for anyone travelling in the Arabic-speaking world
last month i got half-way through Peter Mathiessen's Shadow Country and want to return to that. Made me think of Cormac McC's trilogy, only set in florida instead of texas.
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