In fact, it rushed to knuckle under in 1933, signing a treaty with Hitler forbidding German Catholics to participate in any form of political activity that criticized the regime.
Because without sin there can be no fear, without fear how do you control large numbers of human beings? Add to that an elite theocracy that periodically issues edicts as it sees fit, in order to keep itself in power, and the definition of totalitarianism is complete.” “….You see what’s happened here? Religion was invented by men in order to create sin. But there was a host of disorienting trigger words, such as a, and, the, to, from-” They learned to read by literally picturing each word. But that became a liability around written words, since his mind buzzed like a bee trying to find its way into a blocked hive. “…The speed of his thought processes was somewhere between four hundred and two thousand times faster than for people whose brains were wired for word-based thought. Interestingly the story talks about religion in politics and some extreme views of the incumbent President.Ī few excerpts that were very interesting – The President elect’s daughter and his daughter were close friends. Jack is an “Outsider”, has lost his daughter to a road accident and has nearly broken up with his wife. Jack is asked by the President elect to find his daughter and he does. Its about the kidnapping and brainwashing of the daughter of the President Elect, whose friend is Jack McClure. Jack McClure is dyslexic and its fascinating to see how he works on a problem differently from non-dyslexic folks.
Its also interesting that “Jack” seems to be a favourite first name for fictional super spies or super heroes – Lee Child has Jack Reacher and Eric Van Lustbader has Jack McClure. Outstanding fiction books and yes spy novels :). I completed reading it very quickly and then bought the next one in the series “Last Snow”. While browsing the Kindle Unlimited options recently I saw several titles from Eric Van Lustbader and the “First Daughter” seemed fascinating enough. Then he wrote the Jason Bourne series … for some reason, I never read any of those. The whole Japanese martial arts inspired series – Kaisho, Ninja etc were classics and I have read and reread them several times. We got hooked and remain hooked to this day ! I had been reading Eric Van Lustbader’s books for many years now. When we went to Laos in 2016, we discovered Jack Reacher and Lee Child’s series of books with him as the main character.
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