Twisted Triangle by Caitlin Rother. My second read-it's as good as the first time. Who doesn't want to get into the minds of an amazingly accomplished writer, a crazed FBI agent, and a woman-also an FBI agent-who refused to go down TWICE? "[Our minister] has got explosives around his waist. I'll kill us all. Come on, let's talk, or we'll all die," he said, the frustration in his voice rising. "Do you want to die?" Audible book FREE with Audible trial Twisted Triangle: A Famous Crime Writer, a Lesbian Love Affair, and the FBI Husband's Revenge
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1574-5-realities-when-your-life-sensational-news-story.html In Contempt Christopher Darden “…Object. Object. Object!” This was the trap they’d been waiting to spring for nine months. How hard is it to fin some witness to come in and corroborate the defense claim that Fuhrman had used the word in the past ten years? If they could lead Rosa Lopez into saying that she saw a Bronco where there was none, how hard would it be to find someone to testify against the most reviled police officer in L.A.? “Object,” I said. But Marcia [Clark] didn’t object.
Silent Coup Len Colony and Robert Gettlin “The booty also included information on a more legitimate problem that was vexing the Joint Chiefs, how the Vietcong seemed to learn in advance of the bombing raids what arms caches and base camps the Americans had targeted…”
The Game of the Foxes Ladislas Farago The United States? Hitler shrugged. It was too remote and too little involved in the affairs of Europe. He did not care, he said, what happened in America. Canaris was visibly relieved that Hitler was not extending the ban on the far side of the Atlantis. For strange as it was, for a country so remote and neutral, the United States loomed enormously in the affairs of the Abwehr.
A Man Named Dave Dave Pelzer And yet it all seemed surreal to me, how Mother could turn her hatred against her other children. Part of me had always feared for them. As a young boy surviving in darkness, I had known what to expect from Mother, to the point that I could predict her moods. Thinking ahead, staying a step or two ahead of her, not only kept me alive and gave me a protective armor, but became a way of life for me. Before Kevin was born, I was never sure if Mother would suddenly strike out against Ron, Russell, or even Stan. Before I was taken away, as I sat o my hands in the basement, I would cringe whenever I heard my brothers come through the front door and walk into the house as if they were entering a minefield….
The Lost Boy Dave Pelzer “After the effects of the trial had worn off, my insides became numb. I fully realized that Mother could not physically harm me. But I still felt an eerie sensation that told me Mother was somewhere out there, coiled like a rattlesnake, wanting to reach out and strike with a vengeance.”
Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Everything to Gain …this book deals with health—emotional and spiritual as well as physical. What can each of us do to protect our health, to live more years and to have more life in each year? What problems or priorities help or hinder us toward our goals? How are our habits shaped by our families? Our religion? Our background?
Death of a Tycoon Nick Davies “Sometimes I don’t know why I go on. Everything I try, people turn against me… I’ve got no friends, no one I can turn to… no one to share my life with… sometimes I think I should just end it all, throw myself out of the window… I sometimes feel I can’t go on.”
Mengele Gerald L. Posner and John Ware “…SS men came and took two children away. They were two of my pets, Tito and Nino. One of them was a hunchback. Two or three days later, an SS man brought them back in a terrible state. They had been cut. The hunchback was sewn to the other child, back to back, their wrists back to back, too…”
The Twisted Cross Joseph J. Carr “… the murderer of millions and destroyer of an entire continent, adored child star Shirley Temple! Hitler’s favorite movie, which was shown over and over in the fuehrer’s headquarters, was Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Perhaps his love for Snow White was not so strange after all, however, for Hitler was fanatical over the concept of ‘purity,’ especially aryan racial purity…”
Love and Death Max Wallace and Ian Halperin “People with PhD’s saw [Kurt Cobain] the day he left [rehab] and nobody, nobody, expected that he would leave, let alone that he would be suicidal,” [Courtney Love] told [Tom] Grant. “And I don’t think that he was really suicidal when he came home. But whoever he was with drove him to it.”
In My Father’s Name Mark Arax “They packed the place that first Saturday night, the curious ogling the spot where Dad went down, where the bullets reamed the wall.”
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien “The average age in our platoon, I’d guess, was nineteen or twenty, and as a consequence things often took on a curiously playful atmosphere, like a sporting event at some exotic reform school. The competition could be lethal, et there was a childlike exuberance to it all, lots of pranks and horseplay. Like when Azar blew away Ted Lavender’s puppy. “What’s everybody so upset about?” Azar said. I mean, Christ, I’m just a boy.”
