Monday, October 07, 2013

Book Excerpt for the Day


    It was appalling that the necessary steps he’d taken ti rid the Pakistani territory that he controlled of undesirable elements should be designated as crimes against humanity.  The individuals he’d ordered killed were not humans, so killing them could not be classified as a criminal act.  He’d cut off limbs of those who dared raised a weapon against him, yes, but didn’t the Bible itself, the West’s favorite book, assert that one should take an eye for an eye?  Yet they called his action barbarism.

 
    (from The Janus Reprisal by Jamie Freveletti)


   6½*/10.  The complete review is here.
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