The King of Sting - Craig Glazer and Help

In the early 70's Glazer and some friends were ripped off trying to buy a big load of weed to sell on campus at ASU. Grazer becomes obsessed with this moment in his life and revenge. He finds an vet Don Woodbeck to be his side kick, and posing as cops the two set up a ton of stings that allow them to rip drugs and money off from mulitple dealers in their area and around the country. At some point Glazer ends up being hired by the Kansas City attorney general as an undercover operative. That last only a few months and he soon finds himself in prison. This book just goes on an on. Glazer is a total creap and quite a bit of the stuff he says makes you wonder if he is lying or exagerating. Worse the book is just poorly writen. I don't know if it is the and help who is the problem or if Glazer is to busy trying to build himself up he doesn't take any time to work on his style of story telling. ICK!

Out of Five Stars- Two Stars (**) I'm being generous but if he fooled as many people as he did, well can I just say there are a lot of stupid people out there.

Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War - Asne Seierstad

The subject of this book was horrific but the writing was something truly beautiful. Often times when I am faced with a journalist turned author I'm left feeling hungry, as if the journalist can't fill up all the pages of their book. Asne does not have this problem. In 1994 Asne traveled to Chechnya as an independent war journalist. While there she was almost raped and shot at more than once. Ten years later she returns to Chechnya to try and discover what has happened to the area since the war. What she documents is heartbreaking. She describes a young boy who slowely kills dogs who he finds eating unburied bodies. She documents the struggles of a woman trying to run an orphanage whose husband has fled the country with many of the older boys to keep them out of the army or from being rounded up as Islamic terrorist. She writes of neighbors who no longer speak because of fear of being labeled as "one of them". This story is not for the faint of heart but if you can stomach the content it is a treasure.

Out of Five Stars I give it Five Stars *****