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I did not grow up in the 1960s or ’70s, so the name John Ehrlichman didn’t strike a chord with me when I first picked up this book. The back-cover blurb from Clive Cussler, though, calls this book “a masterly … Continue reading
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A sensitive essay in photographs and words of contemporary China – Photographs by Gun Kessle Over the years, I have collected a great number of travelogues from China and other nations throughout the Middle East and Asia. Probably half of … Continue reading
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Eye-Witness Report from a Soviet Court-room This publication from Frontline Fellowship chronicles the two-day trial and sentencing of seven Ukrainian believers in 1969. Needless to say, it’s a timely read, considering Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the two-steps-back approach … Continue reading
I recently finished reading Geoffrey Household’s Hostage: London (1977), a slow-paced terrorism thriller that scratched some itches, and after putting it down, I longed for more. I scoured my paperback dealer and found two more novels that will keep me … Continue reading
The fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom I honestly can’t recall my earliest introductions to China, though I lived there for nine years. What I do recall is taking a “Chinese Culture” … Continue reading
In Search of Marco Polo and Other Adventures While my commitment to reading one Asian travelogue per week this Fall has been short-lived — I finished Rhythms of a Himalayan Village in a week, but this one took much longer … Continue reading
For a Summer Reading Program I organized at my church this year, I’ve been encouraging folks to read biographies that I’ve pulled off our dusty and unused shelves. Thus far I’ve read a few that struck my fancy, like Tariri … Continue reading
Someone smarter than Socrates and Plato (both morons) once said, “Never start a land war in Asia,” but that’s precisely what Walter “Bird” McIntyre hopes to accomplish in this outrageous novel by Christopher Buckley. It’s only June, but I’m calling … Continue reading
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Perusing the library at my parents’ church, I came across this fifty-year-old memoir of a Bulgarian pastor who was kidnapped, jailed, and tortured by the Communists for 13 years under trumped-up charges of espionage. While such books might have been … Continue reading
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All men who are young and strong and do not want to die must think of escape. Step to the right, step to the left… the Russians knew it too. But only a madman could entertain any serious hopes of … Continue reading
