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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4711439" data-attributes="member: 54707">While working on a case tonight and waiting for my wife to get back from Virginia I developed a bad case of insomnia. If I don’t get to bed by 0300 I’m pretty much screwed anyways and won’t be able to sleep at all that night. So I decided to do something productive to kill a little bit of the time before sunrise.BOOKSGhost: Confessions of a Counter-terrorism Agent – I like Fred Burton (the author) and I take STRATFOR. So when I saw this book it interested me. The book is down-written, and by that I mean it is generally written down to an audience that has little or no previous experience with Counter-terrorism matters. Nevertheless it is a real good read on his personal experiences, and the man has some interesting work methods that I enjoyed reading and thinking about. An excellent resource for anyone with an interest in counter-terrorism, and who plays espionage/counter-terrorism games.Survive! – This work is by Les Stroud. Now I like Stroud and am a big proponent and practitioner of survival tactics myself, both rural and urban, going back to my days in the CAP, and my childhood growing up in the country. Stroud is to me part of a new breed of survivalists who employ very creative and innovative uses of simple tools that many others might overlook. This book is great, as is his series, Survivorman, which I also highly recommend. I’d like to meet the man one day. This is good for any kind of game that has survival elements included. One day I’m gonna write articles about "Vadding and Survival in both Gaming and Real World Situations."The Terminal Spy – Now, yes, I like Intel work. I like espionage matters. But criminal and detective work has always been my first love. So when I saw this book on the Litvinenko Case, which I have been eagerly following since it first broke open, I saw immediately that it would be fascinating to me because it combined elements of international espionage (especially the newer Private espionage and Intel Rings – which fascinate me personally and about which I have written a couple of theory papers – not to mention my personal interest in the fact that I have some old buddies in Russia going back to the Cold War days who worked against the KGB ), Intel, terrorism, and, most especially homicide and assassination. So I got it. The book is an excellent work of investigative journalism and detective work from what I can tell so far. If you have any interest in Intel/military/espionage games then this book is not only full of ideas, it is a good and thorough objective examination of the case itself.TVWeaponology – A really good series, generally speaking. Not as good as Futureweapons, but excellent nonetheless.Warriors – I saw the preview for this the other night and really enjoyed it. It seems well researched too.LECTURE SERIESA History of Ancient Greece – this lecture is by Eric Cline. Cline is one of my favorite modern lecturers to follow. He is a professor at George Washington University and not a bad anthropologist/archaeologist in his own right. He is also a very good teacher. I generally prefer Madden out of Saint Louis University, but Cline is awfully good at what he does. Speaking of which –The Catholic Church in the Modern Age – You should really listen to any of Madden’s lectures on the Catholic Church, from any era he addresses, but especially his lectures on the Crusades, which are fantastic (as are his lectures on the Byzantine Empire). They are extremely well balanced and brilliant. Full of historical detail and insight. I’d like to take a class under the man sometime. For now though his lectures are well worth listening to.Indeed, I am about to start reading Agincourt, which I got at the library yesterday, and is about Hook the English longbowman. It is hard to go wrong with Cornwell, so detailed is his research, and so great is his writing.The Sharpe books and the series starring Sean Bean, I believe it was (Over the hills, and far away...) are both excellent.</blockquote>

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