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Inside Out
Inside Out | Barry Eisler
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Torture.Ghost detainees.And a massive cover-up that continues even today.Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, black ops soldier Ben Treven gets a visit from his former commander, who explains the price of Ben's release: find and eliminate Larison, a rogue operator from Ben's unit who has stolen ninety-two torture tapes from the CIA and is using them to blackmail the U.S. government.But other players are after the tapes, too, and to find Larison, Ben will have to survive CIA hit teams, Blackwater mercenaries, and the long reach of the White House. He'll also have to find a way to handle Paula Lanier, a smart, sexy FBI agent who has her own reasons for wanting the tapes and is determined to get them before Ben does. With the stakes this high, everyone has an angle—everyone but Ben, who will have to find the right alliance if he wants to stay alive.“A thrill-seeker's book... Perhaps most interesting of all, the story is based on true events: 92 missing CIA interrogation tapes that allegedly included recordings of prisoners being tortured. Eisler's latest offering doesn't reinvent the genre, but it certainly pumps it full of adrenaline.”—The Daily Beast
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Inside Out | Barry Eisler
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This book felt hurried. It's not really any shorter than his other books, but there are lots of distracting & careless punctuation errors. Despite that, this was enjoyable. I really liked Paula's character but was disappointed over how she turned out. Hort has a speech at the end about what the American government is, and it feels particularly accurate now, though this book was published in the pre-Trump presidency world. 4 out of 5 stars.

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The[...]unwritten rule of American politics: the sacrifice had to be commensurate with the scandal. For Abu Ghraib, it had been enough to sacrifice[...]enlisted personnel. Watergate[...]had required the resignation of a president. [T]he more the politician could invoke national security[..]the more the impact of the scandal could be blunted. That‘s why Clinton‘s blow job almost killed him, while war crimes accusations were so easy to deflect.