A.G. Riddle is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. This book is my favorite so far, and it’s the first in a two-part series called The Extinction Files. Pandemic (as you might expect) tells the story of modern bio-terror in the form of a new disease that is incurable without the antidote, only available […]
Hellhound On His Trail recounts the manhunt for James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr’s assassin. From the first page to the last, this book flies by. Hampton Sides does an amazing job of recreating all of the scenes, but the recounting of the actual assassination will have you feeling like you’re in the house with […]
I read / watch just about everything I can on the drug war / drug trade. For some reason I have a morbid obsession with the topic. Wolf Boys is the true story of two boys who are lured into the drug trade at the Laredo border in Texas. Not only is the story very […]
The Dalai Lama and Bishop Desmond Tutu spent a week together at the Dalai Lama’s retreat in northern India and the author recorded all of the conversations. I liked this book because it gave an inside glimpse into two of the world’s most influential spiritual leaders of the last 30+ years. It was also the […]
Darknet is the first book I read by Matthew Mather. I also have read Cyberstorm which I highly recommend. Darknet is the story of a stockbroker who stumbles into a secret of one of the world’s largest corporations and is fighting for his life and his family’s lives (as well as several others in the same […]
Cyberstorm is a book about a small community’s quest to survive an all-out cyber attack on the US in the midst of one of the most deadly weather events in New York City history. I read this after reading Darknet by the same author (which I also really enjoyed). While I’m not a maniacal “prepper” […]
There’s not enough time to write about the greatness of this book. It is a seminal work on the history of humans, going way back in evolutionary history and walking forward to modern day. Exploring everything from why societies evolved to live in closer proximity to the causes of widespread destruction to why hunter-gatherers were […]
The human condition has been improving, steadily, for thousands of years. Intuitively we know this, but at times it can be hard to remember. Matt Ridley does a masterful job of framing human progress and our ability to predictably overcome the obstacles that are put before us. Whether it’s the threat of starvation (“We’ll never […]
If you were to meet me at a mixer and we got talking about books, this book would be one of the first that comes up for me. It’s hard to overstate how much this book has shaped my world view. Gaining an understanding of generational dynamics and how similar the time we are living […]