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Seymour Hersh has been a legendary investigative reporter since 1969 when he broke the My Lai story in Vietnam. His considerable skill and well-placed sources inside the government, intelligence community, military, and the diplomatic corps have allowed him access to a wide range of information unavailable to most reporters. Chain of Command is packed with specific details and thoughtful analysis of events since the attacks of September 11, 2001, including intelligence failures prior to 9/11; postwar planning regarding Afghanistan and Iraq; the corruption of the Saudi family; Pakistan's nuclear program, which spread nuclear technology via the black market (and admitted as such); influence peddling at the highest levels; and the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, among other topics. The book collects and elaborates on stories Hersh wrote for The New Yorker, and includes an introduction by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, on Hersh's background and his sources.
Part of Hersh's skill lies in uncovering official reports that have been buried because government or military leaders find them too revealing or embarrassing. Chain of Command is filled with such stories, particularly regarding the manner in which sensitive intelligence was gathered and disseminated within the Bush administration. Hersh details how serious decisions were made in secret by a small handful of people, often based on selective information. Part of the problem was, and remains, a lack of human intelligence in critical parts of the Middle East, but it also has much to do with the considerable infighting within the administration by those trying to make intelligence fit preconceived conclusions. A prime example of this is the story about the files that surfaced allegedly detailing how Iraq had purchased uranium from Niger in order to build nuclear weapons. Though the files were soon proven to be forgeries, the Bush administration still used them as evidence against Saddam Hussein and therefore part of the reason for invading Iraq. In these pages, Hersh offers readers a clearer understanding of what has happened since September 11, and what we might expect in the future. --Shawn Carkonen
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Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in
The New Yorker, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Now, in
Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijackers crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a divisive and dirty war in Iraq?
Hersh established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism thirty-five years ago when he broke the news of the massacre at My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Ever since, he's challenged America's power elite by publishing the stories that others can't, or won't, tell. In exposés on subjects ranging from Saudi corruption to nuclear black marketeers and -- months ahead of other journalists -- the White House's false claims about weapons of mass destruction, Hersh has cemented his reputation as the indispensable reporter of our time.
In
Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush's "war on terror" and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. He reveals the connections between early missteps in the hunt for Al Qaeda and disasters on the ground in Iraq. The book includes a new account of Hersh's pursuit of the Abu Ghraib story and of where, he believes, responsibility for the scandal ultimately lies. Hersh draws on sources at the highest levels of the American government and intelligence community, in foreign capitals, and on the battlefield for an unparalleled view of a crucial chapter in America's recent history. With an introduction by
The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick,
Chain of Command is a devastating portrait of an Administration blinded by ideology and of a President whose decisions have made the world a more dangerous place for America.
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Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in
The New Yorker, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Now, in
Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijackers crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a divisive and dirty war in Iraq?
Hersh established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism thirty-five years ago when he broke the news of the massacre at My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Ever since, he's challenged America's power elite by publishing the stories that others can't, or won't, tell. In exposés on subjects ranging from Saudi corruption to nuclear black marketeers and -- months ahead of other journalists -- the White House's false claims about weapons of mass destruction, Hersh has cemented his reputation as the indispensable reporter of our time.
In
Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush's ""war on terror"" and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. He reveals the connections between early missteps in the hunt for Al Qaeda and disasters on the ground in Iraq. The book includes a new account of Hersh's pursuit of the Abu Ghraib story and of where, he believes, responsibility for the scandal ultimately lies. Hersh draws on sources at the highest levels of the American government and intelligence community, in foreign capitals, and on the battlefield for an unparalleled view of a crucial chapter in America's recent history. With an introduction by
The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick,
Chain of Command is a devastating portrait of an Administration blinded by ideology and of a President whose decisions have made the world a more dangerous place for America.
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Exposing a war built on lies and the failures of US foreign policy.......2007-07-13
Seymour Hersh demonstrates that even 30 years after the establishment of his reputation as a skilled investigative journalist, there is plenty of fire left inside him when it comes to revealing the corruption within government, including the executive branch. Chain of Command depicts the sad state of affairs that America has been pushed into since 9/11 by the Bush administration, and how a small group of individuals were basically able to hijack US foreign policy, mismanage two wars along with the Global War on Terrorism, and commit human rights blunders while minimizing public responsibility for their actions.
The ever-present theme to Chain of Command is that major problems, ranging from Abu Graib to poor intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq, were ignored by top leadership officials in an effort to either conceal unwanted truths or to plot a set course using a hypothesis and selectively use facts to confirm it (rather than taking the more logical approach of gathering the appropriate information and making an educated decision based on those findings).
Hersh covers a lot of ground, and the reader will certainly walk away with a much clearer understanding of how we got to where we are today. Highly recommended.
Peerless Hersh .......2007-01-28
Yes, its true that this book is "out of date" to a great extent. What is amazing is how much is discussed in the book and yet so little has reach the "main stream media." I consider myself a pretty "aware" person, but I was shocked to read the depths of depravity at Abu Ghraib. Hersh's reporting on the foundations of this war were also illuminating: I had an inkling of different parts, but in Chain of Command, it is all put together in a much clearer picture.
For those hestitating as to whether to pick this book up because of its age, my recommendation is: don't wait. I read this before reading Fiasco and found the two worked well together to give me a sense of the war from its inception (and "pre-inception") to early 2006. Of course, so much has happened in the last year, that even more recent books like Fiasco or State of Denial cover increasingly shrinking time periods of this war-without-end.
Great book - Now (10/19/2006) Out of Date.......2006-10-20
That's the problem with these "up to the moment" books: they quickly get out of date. This was a book that has been on my list for a while. The book was excellent, but now--2 years later--we know so much more about this foul war and the fould things that have come from this war.
I recommend this book--for what that's worth--with one caveat: know that it's now 2+ years post publication. If you're a news-hound, you already know everything within its pages.
The JUICE is IN the WHITE HOUSE!.......2006-06-21
Now let me see.....
1) Violent unthinking murderous rage! ....accompanied by
2) Non-sequitorious banal justifications and Lies ....in the context of
3) A nobbled and ineffectual judicial process
.....now where have I seen THAT before??
Hersh is a REAL journalist.......2006-03-21
This book should be required reading for every American. Hersh lays out the incompetency of this administration for all to see. Only those who have drank the Kool-Aid would argue that the Bush administration should not be thrown out of office before it's too late.
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Governments are bigger and more powerful than ever, while a citizen's ability to control his or her own life has never been less effective. Bovard shows how the State threatens to destroy the individual in order to preserve the belief that any government is superior to the citizen. Bovard asks how we got to this point and answers with a thoughtful look at the history of governmental control from ancient times to the present, peppered throughout with observations on our present day, out of control governmental regulatory commissions and all-confiscating IRS.
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To the State, by means of Stephen Colbert: "You're on notice!".......2007-01-14
If, by some miraculous delusion, you find yourself entrusting the U.S. federal government with the benefit of the doubt, then perhaps you have no entitlement to pull a lever in the voting booth. But as libertarian reporter James Bovard reveals in "Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen," our representative democracy is such a sham that maybe it wouldn't make much of a difference if no one showed up to vote on election day. Indeed, much about the contemporary mindset regarding the sanctity of the modern state is fraudulent and ill-informed poppycock, and Bovard has the unsettling facts (and they are very much unsettling) to prove that thesis. Personally, after coming off reading George Orwell's "1984," I can accredit Mr. Bovard's book with a similar blessing: This is one of the most important texts you will ever read, and that the citizenry's apathy will be the bearer of their own destruction. Think the government is looking out for you? Do you believe in some magical new solution to societal and economic ills that can only come on an angelic cloud from the state? Then this is an urgent read.
Bovard's painstaking documentation, countless examples, and innumerable cases of state coercion and intimidation and the federal government's waste and unconstitutional actions against private citizens and businesses as a result of their loony policies are accurate, to say the least. The best part, Bovard dismantles every Big Government apologist's arguments regarding the state as some sort of deity. The man is a devoted libertarian, but his propositions are the only viable armor for those of us devoted to the United States Constitution. The more I keep watching the corporate-owned media outlets, the more liberty is subverted, the more I can hear the earth shifting violently. It's the Founding Fathers rolling in their graves.
"Freedom in Chains" will likely make you weep and fret for your country`s future, believing there is no hope. Moreover, as I plowed through the book, nearer and closer to the conclusion, I thought that Bovard would end bleakly with the idea that there really is no hope anymore. His chapter on the solutions to our political enslavement is brief, but still optimistic in nature. In the end, the American populace must take the reigns from our slave owners. Will we stop voting for the "lesser of the two evils," when the `lesser' is almost always in cohorts with the actual evil?
"Can you fear me now?" --US Government.......2006-02-05
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." John F. Kennedy
"Your government knows your mind, and you know your government's mind." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -George W. Bush (sometimes it is more honest to deviate from the script and speak from the gut!)
One would hope that a political tome written 7 years ago would become outdated; that politics might have changed since then. Sadly, James Bovard's "Freedom in Chains," is more relevant now than it was then. Despite a republican president (and congress) which, at one point, professed a "small government" platform, the size of the government has grown to unprecedented heights.
Bovard's "Freedom in Chains" not only documents the incursion of government into the people's liberty, but tries to dissect how this began. Not suprisingly, his first chapter points largely (but not exclusively) to FDR. With a careful eye, Bovard analyzes FDR's shifty rhetoric, which was able to effectively redefine the word "freedom": a word that used to mean "absence of coercion by the state," was now morphed to mean "safety provided by the state." Where we used to talk of freedom to buy and sell as one pleased, now we heard talk of freedom to buy and sell at "fair" prices as dictated by government. FDR (and others) were soon able to tell the citizenry with a straight face that freedom meant the ability of the government to take care of them via legislation.
From there, Bovard spends chapter after chapter highlighting examples of this paternalism run amok. "Cagekeepers and Caretakers" highlights how politicians use the idea that they were democratically elected to justify incursions into liberty under the guise that "that's what the people wanted." (And witness in 2004 the argument from the GW Bush camp that the president has a "mandate" from the people!)
In what might be the best chapter, "The Moral Glorification of Leviathan," Bovard documents how government has claimed for itself such things as: the right to tell farmers how much of what they can sell and at what price, the right to tell landlords that they may not discriminate by refusing to rent to drug addicts addicts (or any other group the government happens to like), and the right to tell companies what numbers of which "groups" they can hire. (A particularly great example was the government's failed attempt to mandate that Hooters employ as many male waiters as female waitresses!)
From here, we read documented accounts of government officials exempting themselves from laws the public is expected to obey (e.g. while it is illegal to lie to the police, the police may lie to obtain a confession!), etc. I confess that at this point, the book does become a bit monotanous. While an advantage to Bovard's "laundrey list" approach is its thoroughness in documenting claims, a disadvantage is that after so many examples, each one begins to lose its bite. (I must admit that after a while, I began to skim rather than read, as so many paragraphs began looking like ones I'd read before.)
Another small criticism is that I do not think that supporters of government's growth will be convinced by this book. In other words, this is not a book that argues forcefully that government growth is a bad thing in itself; rather, it documents the growth of government and assumes that the readers' symapthies will be against such trends. (For books actually arguing against statism, read Freidrich Hayek, Richard Epstein, or anything coming out of the CATO institute).
For all this, I must still give this book four stars. Bovard does an admirable job documenting abuses of government power and attempting to alarm an appallingly unalarmed public that a government unchallenged translates to a people unfree.
Research excellent & sources of "wisdom" unrivaled.......2005-11-29
James Bovard is a bestselling libertarian author and lecturer, whose political commentary targets examples of governmental waste, failures, and abuses of power.
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The Fair Trade Fraud (1992)
Lost Rights (1995)
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FREEDOM IN CHAINS: THE RISE OF THE STATE AND THE DEMISE OF THE CITIZEN (2000) Just finished this book and it is filled with examples of the "Statist" (politicians and bureaucrats) extorting money to facilitate their appetite for power and thus controlling as many aspects of life in these "United States"(separation into red and blue states does not make much difference). The research is excellent and the sources of "wisdom" are unrivaled. The EEOC and EPA appear to be the most outrageous of bureaus but closely followed by HUD and others; however, the Supreme Court clearly wins the "stuck on stupid" award between the three branches and the Senate is a clear choice in the Congress. Much of what Mr. Bovard relates is probably well known by the average political savvy reader, but his ability to back up his message with research, i.e. facts and sagacious quotes makes for an excellent read. Still, as one other reader stated, "What exactly can be done with the current apathy and addiction to the Welfare State by so many voters?".
Feeling Your Pain (2001)
Terrorism and Tyranny (2003)
The Bush Betrayal (2004)
Quotes:
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." (1994). This is my favorite and another version could be a jackass (Dems) and an elephant (Republicans) fighting over "hay" (tax receipts) that does not belong to them. They then give some back to the "original owners" (taxpayers) after eating their "fill" (outrageous retirements, perks, etc.) and providing some to their "herd" (special interests). THIS ITEM WAS EDITED--From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia--LOG ON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Bovard nails it again.......2004-05-20
I read this book when it was first published and as I was reading was half the time wanting to throw the book across the room. It was the frustration making me do that.
I re-read this book again and after 3 1/2 years of Bush I found Bovard to be very prophetic. What he said is even more true today than when he wrote it.
If you are concerned for that state of this country, don't just read this book, but think about and act on it.
Bovard is the anti- Micheal Moore.
Read this for a view of whats really happening.
Oh yes, DON'T throw the book.
Government vs the People.......2004-02-02
If you still labor under the delusion that the United States Government is here for your benefit, read this book. Mr. Bovard puts paid to that myth. Americans are now subject to such an unrealistic array of laws and statutes that every one of us is ripe for picking by some bureucrat looking to "get his numbers up". America has truly gone from a government "for the people" to one "against the people". Our constitutional protections are not worth the paper they are written on. If you manage to go through life without running afoul of some government functionary, you are indeed a luck individual. Read this book
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Containerized shipping has always been an attractive target for thieves and smugglers-- and now terrorists. Are today's security the effects of supply--chain security proposals.
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FREEDOM DOESNT MIND ITS CHAINS has as its core theme the cultivation of intimacy with all that we are. Its approach is passionate, integral, and deep-cutting. And its topics? Sex, body, emotion, spirituality, choice, freedom. Its chapters range from the nature of choice to the anatomy of guilt to the raw basics of awakened sex. FREEDOM DOESNT MIND ITS CHAINS is a travel companion for deep journeying, inviting us to bring everything, including our suffering, onto the dancefloor. No wallflowers. In dancing with it all, we enter, and enter with more than our intellect, that which we never really left, but only dreamt we did.
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Radical Intimacy.......2006-06-15
"Pain comes with Life, and what better use to make of pain than to deepen our faith? Instead of turning our pain into suffering, we can allow it to fuel our way into a deeper life, a life abundant with faith." ~ Robert Augustus Masters
Freedom Doesn't Mind Its Chains is a soul-soothing read with deep insights into the true nature of reality. Initially mind cleansing (I kept taking these deep cleansing breaths), I found myself almost releasing a heavy burden of not being understood as Robert Augustus Masters provided complete understanding for human complexity. In this book he fully embraces an almost radical honesty as he unveils a wide range of emotions and explores each fully in a poetic essay explanation.
He explains joy during suffering in unique ways, addresses how we can stop feeding our dragons and turns the world inside out in order to explain the unexplainable. The chapter on thanking God for dragons was quite enlightening.
"The dragon is a needed adversary, a fitting challenge that tests our readiness to encounter and wisely use the treasure we seek. Instead of viewing such tests just as burdens or adversity, we would do well to be grateful for them, regardless of our fear." ~ pg. 31
Freedom Doesn't Mind Its Chains is truly a fascinating study of human life in all its complexity. Robert Augustus Masters' writing is highly focused, always entertaining and beyond poetic. Stories, poetry and in-depth analysis convey his message effectively and keep your attention from the first word to the last. I also enjoyed Divine Dynamite. Reading these two books will make you feel deeply understood and will increase your spiritual awareness of what really matters.
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- Reinventing your supply chain
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Accelerated Logistics: Streamlining the Army's Supply Chain
Mark Wang
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In June 1998, U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the National Partnership for Reinventing Government presented a team of U.S. Army logisticians and RAND analysts the Hammer Award in recognition of a great accomplishment: streamlining army logistics. For decades, the performance of army logistics fell progressively behind best commercial practices. Army mechanics would wait on average a month for spare parts from distant supply depots in order to repair a down weapon system. Today a high-velocity, streamlined army supply process delivers spare parts in half the time it took to deliver them just 3 years earlier. In fact, these days it acutally takes less time to get a spare part from an army supply depot than from a commercial vendor.
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Reinventing your supply chain.......2006-12-02
The army isn't the only organization that has needed to rethink its supply chain practices. If you run a manufacturing or procurement organization that needs a boost, this book can be an excellent primer on how to frame your thoughts.
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Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in
The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Gharaib prison scandal. Now, in
Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a divisive and dirty war in Iraq?
Hersh established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism thirty-five years ago when he broke the news of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Ever since, he's challenged America's power elite by publishing the stories that others can't or won't tell.
In
Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush's "war on terror" and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. With an introduction by
The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick,
Chain of Command is a devastating portrait of an Administration blinded by ideology and of a President whose decisions have made the world a more dangerous place for America.
Read by Peter Friedman
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Chuck Hamby has been a leader in addiction recovery programs for over twenty years. Gifted with a special anointing to work specifically with addicts, he has witnesed the power and success of spiritual principles in the recovery process.
Chuck has prepared this handbook to be used as a tool by those struggling with addiction or for anyone who desires to help the addict go through the recovery process.
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Chains
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Slaves ripped from homeland struggle for freedom in a savage new land.
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- Fun, fast read
- CHAINS OF FREEDOM UNLEASHES!
- Book 1 of 3
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Chains of Freedom
Selina Rosen
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The author who introduced us to Drewcilia Qwah in Queen of Denial, now presents us RJ, an in-your-face rebel leader, in Chains of Freedom, the first title of the Chains trilogy. RJ, like Drew, is a strong heroine and leader, but unlike Drew, knows how to get her point across without colorful language. She is a woman of few words; her style of communication involves the use of a chain and blaster. When political prisoner David Grant ran from the forced labor camp where he'd been imprisoned, his only thought was of escape. However fate turns its hand, and as he runs blindly through the forest he literally runs into the one person who can help him in his fight against the all-powerful Reliance. RJ is the rebel Elite who's been raiding supply trains and sabotaging Reliance facilities so successfully that even the work-units know her name. With David's innocent enthusiasm and desire for justice and RJ's knowledge of weapons and warfare they begin to chip away at the Reliance armor. This is a fast-paced, character-based, science fiction adventure with real heroes, villains, and events that develop in believable and exciting directions. With introduction by C. J. Cherryh on why you should be reading Selina Rosen!
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Fun, fast read.......2003-11-24
"Chains of Freedom" is a fun, fast read. RJ is a soldier, an Elite, one of the highest caste members of the Reliance; she's now out for vengeance, after the Reliance made her do something she strongly disagreed with (killing non-soldiers for the "greater good" of the Reliance). David Grant is an escaped worker on the run. David's managed to teach himself to read and write, something not many workers manage to do; he's intelligent and has the soul of a fighter.
RJ takes him in, mainly because she trusts him instinctively. As things go on, we find out more about RJ the super-soldier and David the worker-turned-politician, and see what drives them together -- and apart.
It's a very quick read that raises some interesting points amidst the trappings of a more or less standard space opera plot. Basically, why should we trust our leaders? How can we keep absolute power from corrupting absolutely?
And it answers an unusual question -- what would happen if identical twins were raised differently? Would they be the same, or would they be different? And why?
Very interesting ideas are the subtext to an engaging, interesting read. Four stars, recommended.
Barb Caffrey
CHAINS OF FREEDOM UNLEASHES!.......2003-09-05
Thanks once again to Amazon.com and their insightful reviewers that turned me onto this novel. This was my 1st Rosen novel that I have read and it was exactly what the other reviewers said it was - a fast-paced rollercoaster ride chock-full of action/adventure and raw emotion.
Chains of Freedom never slowed down and therefore was a fast read. Selina Rosen has a unique style of writing all of her own, and it comes across with a furious pace from bloodly violence to the love of the human heart and soul.
RJ is a heroine you won't soon forget. I will definately be looking forward to reading the next CHAIN novel, as well as trying out her seemingly widely known series.
'Chains of Freedom' is mainly a future earth that has gone through a nuclear holocaust and taken over by a corporate monster-type conglomeration called the Reliance. The Reliance rules with an iron fist and has made the human population forget about Old Earth.
But RJ hasn't forgotten! Her father Stewart is a scientist who makes his children very unique indeed. That's one of the things that is so fun about reading this novel, seeing the super sisters on opposing sides and battling it out all in the names of love and freedom.
If you like fast-paced sci-fi/futuristic action/adventure with a love story at its core - then CHAINS OF FREEDOM is for you!
Book 1 of 3.......2003-08-28
David Grant had been a disgruntled farm work "unit" who was placed in a prison work camp because he had tried to talk the people in his village into rebelling from The Reliance (the so-called government). The worst day in Reliance history happened when David escaped and ran into RJ.
RJ used to be one of the best in the Reliance's military. RJ had been "Elite". When ordered to kill women and children in cold blood, she went rogue instead. She found David, he was dead than alive, and they agreed to join forces. David knew how to make speeches and please the crowds. RJ knew how the Reliance worked and how to kill. Together they would build an army and become the Reliance's worst nightmare!
**** Here is a well written tale with wonderful characters that will keep you glued page-after-page. I admit that David got on my nerves often, but that just goes to show you the author's talent. I considered him "real".
RJ is surrounded by mystery and I, as the reader, was eager to learn more. My pace of reading picked up any time RJ began talking about herself. The book ended at a good stopping place; however, I was still left begging for more. Recommended!
Reviewed by Detra Fitch
Get Ready for a Hell of a Ride!.......2002-04-03
The only thing this book need was some hot butter popcorn!
Rosen has written a awesome sf thriller pitting RJ, genetically-engineered super warrior against the Reliance, a brutal military galactic dictatorship. This nonstop novel begins with a bang when RJ hooks up with david grant who just escape from the Reliance's labor camp and they join forces to overthrow them.They are helped by Whitey, a giant mercenary who is hopelessly in love with RJ, mickey, a midget pickpocket and Levits a former Reliance starship pilot. The action and plot twists start from the first page with unforgettable scenes of brutal hand to hand combat, laser gunbattles and unbeliverable chases and escapes.Another thing that makes this book good it
Rebellion might unravel because of the egoes of our heroes and
betrayal and treachery from the inside.The heroes and villians of this novel are wonderful! RJ- the most formidable heroine since David Weber's Honor Harrington and she is can break your heart and quickly as she can break your neck! David Grant- a charismatic mouthpiece for the rebellion who's ego and bad judgement of character of other people almost destroys him.Jessica Kirk-the Reliance senator who's total obession is to kill RJ and who shares secret that ties them together.So strap on
your blaster and let Rosen, RJ david grant give you the right of your life! I sure did and love every minute of it!
Rosen Does It Again.......2002-03-01
CHAINS OF FREEDOM is a gripping and entertaining novel about the journey to freedom. It's a story that needs a score card to keep up with who's with whom doing what, with an ending that makes you want to know, "WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?" Selina Rosen definitely makes you want to come back for more.
A riveting read - not one to start late at night when you have to work the next day. This is a lock the doors, don't come up for air until your done kind of read.
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- The Eating Disorder Sourcebook : A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of
- The Power and the Glory
- A Course in Modern Mathematical Physics: Groups, Hilbert Space and Differential Geometry
- Wabi
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- The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: 'I am ... not yet'
- Exile: A Chronicle, 1948-1950
Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein
State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
The Assassins' Gate : America in Iraq
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project)
