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I may have read "better" books recently, but so far this is one of the most enjoyable reads I've had in quite a while.

I don’t think I’ve read a book before that has a preface, introduction, AND a prologue.

I thought Slow Horses was very good. Based on listening to the first third of Dead Lions, I’d say that Mick Herron has upped his game a notch. This is outstanding espionage procedural, as well as being hilariously funny.

This is going to be a top contender for my favorite book of the year. Probably best experienced on audio as read by the author.

I chose this week to read this book because I ran out of renewals at the library. With the events in Charlottesville, I couldn't have picked a more suitable week to learn that among the few precedents that Nazis could find for codified racism (and the only example of criminalized miscegenation) were in the United States. Of course Nazi concern for legality was only a pretense, as their later crimes would show.

"In a few minutes I'm going to swim .93 miles, ride a bike 24.8 miles and run a final 6.2 miles". That sounds so ridiculous compared to 1500 meters, 40 km and 10 km. Can't the translator just trust that people with enough erudition to be reading Murakami can cope with a few metric units? Or that anyone who is interested in reading a book about running has probably watched the Olympics?

"In a few minutes I'm going to swim .93 miles, ride a bike 24.8 miles and run a final 6.2 miles". That sounds so ridiculous compared to 1500 meters, 40 km and 10 km. Can't the translator just trust that people with enough erudition to be reading Murakami can cope with a few metric units? Or that anyone who is interested in reading a book about running has probably has watched the Olympics?