Review:Although a true account, it reads like a Spy thriller! Can't put it down type read! Especially interesting in that, it was actually the origination of "Mossad"! I bought copies for two other people & they agreed with my assessment. Read more

Review:The first portion of the book detailing the law enforcement investigation is pretty interesting, after awhile the book goes into quoting some online postings, which is rarely a good thing to include in a great book.
I agree with another poster, the "threat" on page 3 to not let anyone else take a look at the book, and send it back to the author, is the nuttiest page I have seen in a book in a long time. Ticked me off early and so I was biased against the book before I got started... Read more

Review:Amazon's top editors chose American Desperado to be a pick of the month. It was daring choice, given that Jon Roberts shares that space - one of the top ten books -- with Steve Jobs. I thank the editors for taking such a risk. American Desperado is not for the squeamish. It is about bad seeds, not apples.

Jon Roberts is a classic, made-in-America, traveling salesman and raconteur. Why are the bad guys so good at telling stories? Is it because they spend so much time in cars, waiting fo... Read more

Review:The subject of the Mafia has alwaysfascinated me until I sawGoodfellas, then the fascination turned to fear, Underbossjustconfirmed those fears again. Iwill let the subject alone for good'now but one thing, I alwaysthought the definition of a rat wassomeone who tells on their friends,as a made member Sammy supplied theCosa Nostra with millions of dollars a year, he carried theirorders out to the letter and theytalked about him behind his backthat is not somthing a friend would do. Also,while S... Read more

Review:Highly recommend this book for anyone into the inside workings on the mafia. Shows keen insight to the dangerous situation Agent Pistone put himself in for over six years. If you have seen the movie, this book will blow you mind. Much of the details had been left out and altered so this book i found to be much better than the film. Read more

Review:The deep love of this family come through in these pages, and should remind us all that we are not any one thing, but different things to different people. You understand each emotion Albert goes through, how he got to each one, and feel his pride, confusion, conflicting, and pain. He did a wonderful job of making you see his dad through his eyes. He doesn't try to change who his father was, or downplay it, he simply shows his dad's other side. I'm glad Albert came through healthy and able to h... Read more

Review:This book isn't particularly easy to read- I bought it when I was around 14. However, it was one of the first "difficult" or "adult" books I read, and it really captured my imagination. I like to read it every several years. It's really a classic. Read more

Review:-- Months before the latest Iraq war, the CIA recruited 30 Iraqi-Americans to visit their families and approach members of their families involved in that country's nuclear or WMD program. Every one of the thirty returned to America and reported the same message to their CIA contacts - the WMD programs had been dead for a decade. Their message was promptly ignored.

-- George Tenet was so incessantly busy cultivating his "good old boy" relationship with George Bush, he single-handedly allo... Read more

Review:An unbelievable and tragic story of a young boy forced to endure torture of emotional and physical nature from his own family, for lack of a better term. Sanford dealt with inhumane acts with dignity and tolerance that I can safely say most would not. Sanford is a true survivor in every sense of the word. I am privileged to have read this true account of An exceptional boy and the amazing man he became. Thank you. Leeann, avid reader and RN from ohio Read more

Review:Michael Blanding combines a history of cartography, the stories that antique maps tell us, and the series of crimes of a respected map dealer. Together, they make for fascinating reading. There are limited number of top-notch map dealers, who operate under a code of trust, among themselves and with their customers, who depend on them for an understanding of a map's historical significance and for assurances of its authenticity and provenance. Forbes Smiley broke that trust in order to fuel hi... Read more