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 Book Review: Hey everyone. I gotta say, this is a hard book review to write. It's not that the book is badly written or that I didn't get immersed in it. I thought it was actually really good. The problem is the heaviness of the content - just a bit hard to handle. And I guess, how could it be anything else. So, let's get into it. If you saw the film 'Sound of Freedom' that was such an unexpected hit at the box office last summer (see trailer below), this book contains the true life story that inspired the movie. Tim Ballard wrote Slave Stealers in an effort to raise awareness about the nauseating reality of modern day sex trafficking which enslaves more people today  (many of whom are children)   than American slavery ever did.  And Tim Ballard doesn't just write about the problem - he fights it, hands-on. He is a real life operative who puts his life on the line to catch the criminals, and free the kids kidnapped into a life of sex exploitation.  Slave Ste...

  Book Review:   “Gripping… Snowden demonstrates a knack for explaining in lurid and compelling language the inner workings of (CIA and NSA) systems and the menace he came to believe they posed.” (The Washington Post)   Who hasn’t heard of Edward Snowden? He is one of the greats, a hero of our time. But what did he actually do? Well, if you’re anything like me, you only have the vaguest of ideas what his enormous contribution to society was (and is). In this young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller Permanent Record , we get an up close and personal account of the man, his life, and the truth he disclosed about the US government’s digital spying system that it used unlawfully against it’s own citizens and the entire world. It was a system Snowden helped create, and a system he successfully hacked in order to avoid capture after his bombshell disclosures in 2013. Today he still survives and thrives, living in Moscow in exile where he continues the fig...