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Kovach's Last Case by Michael Koryta- 4 Stars = A serial killer during a pandemic

You should not interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake.

Lenin scorned half measures as much as he abhorred compromise.

Till Human Voices Wake Us, and We Drown by Poppy Z. Brite - 3 stars = Stephen King himself could have written this weird story....but is that a good thing?

Down with the Romanovs! Long live the democratic republic!

Butler first enlisted to free Cubans from tyranny. Now an island over (Haiti) he had personally helped destroy a democracy.

The Black Hundreds were the reactionary monarchist, nationalistic and anti Semitic groups supported by Nicholas II

As Contra death squads massacred and raped their way through the Nicaraguan countryside, President Reagan called them "the moral equal of our Founding Fathers".

Cocaine was famously one of the titular ingredients in Coca-Cola; home shoppers could order morphine and hypodermic needles from Sears Roebuck & Co catalog.

Decades of civil war and US corporate and military interference have made the Northern Triangle of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador one of the most dangerous parts of the world to live in.

More importantly it sought to reclaim a mythical sense of past "greatness " by restoring the power of those it saw as "real Americans" who were usually understood to be white and native born( this passage is talking about the 1920s...but)

Anti-vagrancy laws were meant to intimidate freed Black citizens.

In 1970, Noriega was made Panama's chief of military intelligence. A year later he was formally put on the payroll of the CIA

Apartheid was billed as a mark of American modernity.