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Summary: Grim and unputdownable!
Review: This account of the instantly loathsome child molesters makes you want to scream "kill them" or "Take your kids and run". A true hero story. Thank God that Bannon found the strength and the courage to eventually tell his story. Read this book - it is worth the purchase price. One of those books that you still think about long after you've read the last page! Fascinating.
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Summary: Breathtaking
Review: This is a must buy book. The Introduction is mainly to introduce lots of different facts about Interpol which are vital later on in the book. After Chapter One I just could not put this book down. It was just breathtaking and also a heartbreaking, brilliant read. Would recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Magnificent work
Review: This book is simply brilliant. It is truly deserving of the praise that it has been given. The story of David Race Bannon is a remarkable one. He is not a bigtime spy but rather a naive young man who got caught up with the wrong people in desperation. This book is one that all should read, especially students and travellers such as myself. Race, if you are reading this, your story has influenced far more people that one would ever believe. It has certainly changed my outlook on certain aspects of life. Truly magnificent.
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Summary: FANTASTIC!
Review: This book was fantastic. What a journey through the warren of tunnels and lies at Interpol. Def worth the read. The book inspired me to look up the net to follow up the story myself. There you can read the news reports that are summarized in the book and interviews with the men Bannon describes. Def worth the money.
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Summary: fantastic book!!
Review: Well, I have just read the last page of this book, and I won't forget it for a long time....the titled "evil" are psychopaths, child abusers, murderers - it couldnt get much worse! The bit that really tore at my heart strings was the account of Race fighting the Japanese farmer that kidnapped children....what an animal. It is very upsetting, but a good read, I couldnt put it down.
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Summary: Smashes pre-conceptions.
Review: This is the first autobiography that i have ever read, and was a bit wary when i chose this one. I thought i knew what 'type' of person was an assassin, and was expecting the book to be all excuses on Bannon's part. It was not. Once i started this book i could not put it down. An absolutely amazing story which perfectly represents his honesty, courage and strength. He doesnt makes excuses for his story, just attempts to explain why he did it. The horrors reported in Bankok are horrendous, and the Interpol system fairs little better when on paper. But such tales are not written in an attempt to make the reader pity Bannon. His strength is amazing and comes across perfectly in this book- he doesn't ask the reader to pity him, and never attacks the countries in which he worked. A truly great read that i would recommend to anyone.
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Summary: Archangel unmasked.
Review: Astonishing, fascinating, these new revelations from Jacques Defferre and Race Bannon, drawn from the secret annals of the international police force, make Race Against Evil a sharp pleasure that pierces deeper than any other works on Interpol.
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Summary: A lively and involving work
Review: David Race Bannon's "Race Against Evil" captures the verve and mastery of exceptional true crime writing. It is a lively and involving work that has earned some of the best word of mouth--and every word of it is justified. As a penetrating character study it's nonpareil, with the dual "Race" of the title brilliantly realized. David Race Bannon is a missionary who gets caught up in smuggling, at which point he encounters the intrepid Jacques Defferre. He is recruited by Defferre into Interpol and taught to loathe terrorism and child pornography and all its offshoots--with lethal results. Bannon has transformed the espionage expose into something more than factual repetition and, if the author's own race against human sex traffic is sometimes foregrounded, he speaks from experience. This is still an author at his considerable best.
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Summary: Calculated true-life thriller
Review: David Bannon's 'Race Against Evil' is a precise, calculating true-life thriller following the exploits of an agent carrying out his missions for Interpol. Most of the action takes place at the height of the Reagan Era and the book gives an accurate insight into espionage, terrorism and child porn during the 1980s. The story is always interesting and everything Bannon describes is for a purpose, some of which is not immediately apparent at the time but makes sense later. The writer paints the scenes he describes with clarity and distinction, and his colleagues are described in careful detail. The main points that were selected for inclusion in the book seem to have been carefully planned and allow the reader to constantly come up with ideas about what may be happening before blowing them away when you think you have solved. The thought and detail Bannon has put into the book is impressive.
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Summary: An all time classic not just for true crime
Review: The minute you read the first chapters set on tbe streets of London you will be hooked. The book is infectious the characterisation is perfect mostly due to Bannon's droll descriptions. He himself is the main and one of the best protagonists in any non-fiction book. Put all doubts aside and Read it!
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