Los Angeles drug dealer, Tyler Jensen, continues his quest to find a life within the Universe. Posing as a lowly priest addicted to narcotics, he becomes embroiled in a battle between an ancient cult and the planet’s dominant religion. His sins transport him into a hell he is unable to comprehend, let alone escape. Will Tyler survive the damnation or awaken his lost humanity to save his soul?

SUMMARY: An American President faces war and finds himself hamstrung by a Congress that will not act. To protect national security, he invokes his powers as Commander-in-Chief and orders actions that seem to violate laws enacted by Congress. He is excoriated for usurping dictatorial powers, placing himself above the law, and threatening to “breakdown constitutional safeguards.” One could be forgiven for thinking that the above describes former President George W. Bush. Yet these particular attacks on presidential power were leveled against Franklin D. Roosevelt. They could just as well describe similar attacks leveled against George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and a number of other presidents challenged with leading the nation through times of national crisis. However bitter, complex, and urgent today’s controversies over executive power may be, John Yoo reminds us they are nothing new. In Crisis and Command, he explores a factor too little consulted in current debates: the past. Through shrewd and lucid analysis, he shows how the bold decisions made by Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and FDR changed more than just history; they also transformed the role of the American president. The link between the vigorous exercise of executive power and presidential greatness, Yoo argues, is both significant and misunderstood. He makes the case that the founding fathers deliberately left the Constitution vague on the limits of presidential authority, drawing on history to demonstrate the benefi ts to the nation of a strong executive office.

SUMMARY: John Yoo, the key legal architect of the Bush administration’s response to 9/11, delivers a fascinating insider account of the War on Terror. While America reeled from the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001, Yoo and a skeletal staff of the Office of Legal Counsel found themselves on the phone with the White House. In a series of memos, Yoo offered his legal opinions on the president’s authority to respond, and in the process had an almost unmatched impact on America's fight against terrorism. His analysis led to many of the Bush administration’s most controversial policies, including detention at Guantanamo Bay, coercive interrogation, military trials for terrorists, preemptive attacks, and the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program. In fascinating detail, Yoo takes us inside the corridors of power and examines specific cases, from John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla to an American al-Qaeda leader assassinated by a CIA pilotless drone in the deserts of Yemen. In a midterm election year, when the controversies over the president’s handling of the War on Terror are sure to wage more forcefully than ever before, John Yoo’s War by Other Means is set to become one of the fall’s most talked about books.

Natasha: Sóc una noia que creu en la ciència i en els fets demostrables. No en el destí. De fet, no soc la mena de noia que coneix un noi al carrer i se n’enamora perdudament. I encara menys quan la meva família serà deportada a Jamaica d’aquí a dotze hores… Daniel: Sempre he sigut el bon fill, un bon estudiant, a l’altura de les expectatives dels meus pares. Mai el poeta. Ni el somiador. Però quan la veig, m’oblido de tot. La Natasha em fa pensar que el destí ens reserva coses extraordinàries…

¿Cómo pudo la sociedad argentina vivir en compañía del miedo como si fuera algo normal? Durante la terrorífica década de los setenta, Andrew Graham-Yooll trabajó como redactor en el Buenos Aires Herald. A su alrededor, amigos y conocidos iban “desapareciendo”, secuestrados o asesinados por guerrilleros o bandas paramilitares. Aunque el menor traspié podía resultar en su propia muerte, Graham-Yooll continuó recabando información sobre esa carnicería y las actividades de terroristas, rebeldes y estatales; asistió a ruedas de prensa clandestinas; ayudó a padres, esposas y hermanos a seguir el rastro de sus familiares desaparecidos; e incluso tomó el té con un torturador que no se avergonzó de sus escalofriantes confesiones. Años después recogería sus recuerdos de esa época y les daría forma de libro. “Memoria del miedo tiene su historia, como cualquier libro -escribe su autor-. Cuando estaba exiliado en Londres, un amigo me animó a publicar algo en su revista para que dejara de relatarle en el pub las historias de crueldad cuya memoria me abrumaba día y noche. Con este libro sólo pretendía mantener viva la memoria del miedo; mantenerla para no repetirla.” Cuando se cumplen 30 años de la llegada al poder del general Videla (el 24 de marzo de 2006 será el XXX aniversario del golpe) quizá sea un buen momento para repasar episodios recientes de la historia argentina y en especial la situación política y social que condujo el país a la terrible dictadura militar. Memoria del miedo aporta una nueva perspectiva para entender los hechos acaecidos entre 1973 y 1976: a través de las vivencias de un periodista comprometido asistiremos a los actos de violencia de guerrilleros y paramilitares que sumieron a la sociedad argentina en el terror. El recuerdo horrorizado de Graham-Yooll se dirige a aquella sociedad en la que la violencia política parecía normal y cotidiana, y en la que muchos de sus líder.

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