The Dogs of Riga

A rubber raft with two dead men confronts Kurt Wallender with a crime that he tackles with his usual efficiency even though there doesn’t appear to be any way to trace the raft or the men. After Interpol identifies the men as Latvians a policeman from Latvia arrives to give Wallender needed help.

Wallender gets along well with the major from Latvia even though the man is quite taciturn, revealing very little of his background as he tries to solve the crime in a business-like manner.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

In the first of three volumes dedicated to understanding Lizbeth Salander, Stieg Larsson shows how she and Mikael Blomkvist come together to solve a very old mystery that could be a murder. Before that can happen, however, Blomkvist is tried and convicted of libeling one of the most powerful men in Sweden, Hans-Erik Wennerstrom.

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Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton ends his novel “Jurassic Park” with words that indicate that a sequel is in the offing.

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Hitch-22, a memoir

Hitch-22, a memoir begins with an erroneous death notice that gives Christopher Hitchens a tongue-in-cheek way to begin the examination of his life.

After he describes the premature death notice and muses on his own extinction, Hitchens reveals that he is/was a non-bomb throwing radical, a non-artiste of the homosexual stripe and a non-complicated man with a complicated set of life circumstances (a mother who committed suicide and a taciturn father who was a part of the Royal Navy).

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The Big Short

If you took all the really bad aspects of human behavior and spread them around the money managers, politicians and bright Ivy League graduates (who work on “Wall Street”) you’d instantly see why the rest of us have had to endure “The Great Recession.”

Greed, stupidity, ignorance, fraud, self-deception, lies, half-truths and chaos all were involved in the near catastrophe that the world credit markets experienced and that we are barely coming out of now.

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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills

Vietnam gave us the term “body count,” but the number that was reported was only an aggregate and didn’t provide any ratio of how many soldiers it took to achieve one of the kills in the “count.”

Charles Henderson in his book, “Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills” shows exactly, and in gruesome detail exactly what is meant by the phrase “one bullet, one kill.”

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Fordlandia

Greg Grandin weaves a tale of duality and irony in his “Fordlandia.” Ostensibly it’s an examination of Henry Ford’s nascent rubber empire in Brazil. As the machinations to acquire land and not have to pay taxes take place Henry Ford’s point of view about his machine and the industrial empire it created slowly evolves through the pages of the book into a paternalism that both stifled the original intent of producing rubber for his machines and revealed how brute force (the same that he used to build his cars) did not have a chance against the intricacies that nature had evolved in the tropical rain forest.

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