Published: January 28, 2008
I was about 100 pages into Alex Berenson´s mesmerizing new spy thriller, “The Ghost War,” one midnight dreary recently when the familiar National Weather Service “BWAAA! BWAAA! BWAAA!” started exploding incessantly from a nearby radio, warning of imminent severe thunderstorms, possible tornadoes and the dreaded “straight-line winds.”
As vicious gusts shook the house, lights flickered and raindrops pounded the roof, I did not move away from windows, nor did I move immediately to the most enclosed interior room of the house. I kept turning pages. And because I am a board-certified severe weather hypochondriac, I consider any book that keeps me reading through both meteorological hell and literal high water an extraordinary achievement…
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