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Ames Holbrook
Auteur de The deporter
Œuvres de Ames Holbrook
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Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Thailand - Professions
- soldier
deportation officer - Agent
- Millie Glick
- Courte biographie
- Ames Holbrook was a U.S. Army artillery officer with a special weapons team in Italy and then with the 3rd Infantry Division in Germany before he served as a federal Deportation Officer from 1998 to 2002. He now lives in Thailand and maintains a small troop presence in New Orleans. [from The Deporter (2007)]
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 13
- Popularité
- #774,335
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
This book is intended to incite outrage, but I think you'd have to be somewhat of an insider already for a lot of the government's foibles to make sense. Naturally we don't want criminals on the street -- but the red-tape holding up the deportation process and sabotaging counter-terrorism efforts isn't fully explained in this memoir. Of course, once you've been on the inside as long as Holbrook was, it may be hard to talk to the general public.
On the other hand, what really surprised me about this book was the prose. I had expected laborious government-ese -- facts and figures and really dry writing -- but the memoir reads quite like a novel in places. Check out this gem: "An incendiary mood brewed in him, and his face grew rosy in the bracket of his beard" (p. 31). Such elegant prose does make me wonder about the strict veracity of the account, but at least it makes for a more enjoyable read along the way.
Overall, it's definitely a worthwhile read. It doesn't cast our government in a particularly positive light, but I don't think that any of the claims are exaggerated or even unfair. That said, brace yourself for an angsty and rocky text, and one that has the potential to be mind-blowingly revealing.… (plus d'informations)