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Child victims
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 16/06/2017
» Novels are supposedly fictional, imaginary. Similarities to persons and places are coincidental. Which is a legal way of saying: "Don't blame us" -- authors and publishers -- "for sticking it to actual people and/or places."
Tackling IS
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 21/10/2016
» After a delay that has tried my patience, this reviewer congratulates Britain's Stephen Leather for coming through for us. For half-a-decade authors have given IS (Islamic State) a wide berth, aware of their practice of murdering those disparaging their faith. Unlike suicide bombers, they have every intention of fleeing the scenes of their atrocities.
False confessions
Life, Published on 06/04/2015
» Thieves have been around since Year One, nothing and nobody able to stop them. Not Hammurabi's Code nor curses in burial places. People are robbed, tomb raiders loot aboveground pyramids and subterranean mausoleums. Men are murdered, women raped, children kidnapped.