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...reporter for the London Sunday Times and as editor of that paper's much acclaimed Insight investigative team. He has also co-authored six nonfiction books with such titles as The Cocaine Wars and War in the Falklands. If truth is stranger than fiction, then Eddy has clearly witnessed firsthand a lot of strange stuff. Why then has he now decided to write fiction? Has he seen some things it would be prudent to disguise...
...John takes office as firsthand memories of John Kennedy fade," Kirk said. "We want to be sure that the foundation isn't just nostalgic. [Shattuck will] bridge...
Rivers said he saw the problem of AIDS in Africa firsthand when he visited Zimbabwe...
...eloquent memoir about his father's struggle with Alzheimer's--Hard to Forget (Random House, $25)--writer Charles Pierce describes his dismay at the often savage sparring among scientists that he witnessed firsthand. It made him "want to throw things," he writes, "to scream at all these brilliant people that I didn't care a damn about which one of them got to be first as long as someone was." And yet, as Tanzi observes in his soon to be published account of the Alzheimer's wars--Decoding Darkness (Perseus, $26)--there is another way to look at the extreme...
...novel is, ostensibly, the coming-of-age story of its narrator, Mugezi, who is born in a tiny Ugandan village in the early 1960s and who grows up to witness firsthand his country's plunge into chaos under the dictatorship of Idi Amin during the '70s. But Mugezi is not one of those fictional characters who report only what he can plausibly know or have experienced. He gives all the intimate particulars that occur during the wedding night of his father Serenity and his mother Padlock; notes the later occasion of his own conception and, near the end, provides...