Tag: the jersey sting.

Book of the Week: After Dachau.

Interestingly, After Dachau is only nominally alternate history, as I would define it: the change point is not really well-developed and it’s mostly there to help set up the question of What do you do about the consequences of an evil done by another, and that cannot be either redressed or undone? It’s a pretty tough question; more accurately, it’s a pretty tough most likely answer.  Good book, but a depressing one*.

And so, adieu to The Jersey Sting: A True Story of Crooked Pols, Money-Laundering Rabbis, Black Market Kidneys, and the Informant Who Brought It All Down – which was a lot more cheerful, mind.


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#rsrh Book of the Week: The Jersey Sting.

Come, I will conceal nothing from you: when it comes to blogging, there are hassles.  Nothing like dangerous hassles, or even the ones associated with ‘mere’ hard physical labor: but it’s not all beer and skittles.  You have to wade through a lot of junk… and the more well-known that you are, the more junk you have to wade through.  After a certain point, you get sent junk to wade through – and you have to be polite about it, too.

Still, there are news stories that make up for the hassles.  One of these was in 2009, when I woke up to discover that the NJ Hudson County Democratic party had just been thrown into jail – and it just kept getting better.  It is a glorious day for partisan political blogging when one discovers that “human organ trafficking” is an actual charge on the rap sheet associated with one’s political opponents.  The posts write themselves.

All of which is why I’m making The Jersey Sting: A True Story of Crooked Pols, Money-Laundering Rabbis, Black Market Kidneys, and the Informant Who Brought It All Down Book of the Week.  Normally, I’d shorten the title of these things to just the title, but that subtitle deserves its proper place in all of this.

And so, farewell to The Best of Randall Garrett.