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Manny Rayner's book reviews
I love reviewing books - have been doing it at Goodreads, but considering moving here.
Currently reading
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
R in Action
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture
Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
The hostage crisis is in full swing. Duke has been parachuted into Iran to make a covert payoff - it's all part of a nefarious scheme by Jim "Obscene Profits" Andrews. But everything goes wrong, and he's caught by the Revolutionary Guard and tried as a spy. They don't believe his defense that he was just a harmless tourist, and now he's about to be shot at dawn. In fact, he's already blindfolded and standing in front of the firing squad. But Duke wouldn't be Duke if he didn't keep on negotiating."Five hundred thousand dollars! In gold!" barks the Iranian colonel. Duke isn't fazed.
"Two hundred fifty thousand! And that's my final offer!" he replies.
