Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Cobra |
| author | Frederick Forsyth |
| ISBN-10 | 0-593-06422-4 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-593-06422-1 |
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| date | 2018-Oct-06 |
Law enforcement has been battling against drug trafficking for a long time. An uphill battle. What would it take to wipe out the cocaine trade? Really wipe it out? The answer is: a lot of study and a lot of money. And a carte blanche.
In this fictional book, Paul Devereux, a CIA special ops veteran, is given, by presidential order, a lot of money, quite some time and a big carte blanche in order to make the US cocaine free. Interestingly, Devereux only goes after THE cocaine baron, not any of the smaller ones. Interestingly he really is hardly challenged by any agency and allowed to use any resources he sees fit to achieve the goal. And indeed, he brings the imports of this drug basically to a standstill. But does he really succeed? And is the country who asked him to take on this job really ready to bear the consequences?
