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Summary: Fascinating book
Review: I couldn't put down this book about David Race Bannon. He comes across as a terrifying character, and there is so much info about him in there that you really get to know what makes him tick. A lot of crime biogs are written by people who've come along afterwards and looked at the subject, or by some bragging ex-officer who decided to cash in on his memoir, but this one is really unusual in that the writer was there for some famous crimes and he really tells what he felt over the years.
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Summary: 007 it ain't!
Review: After 20 years Bannon tells it all. This is a lean, taut and gripping book. It paints an essentially bleak portrait of the human condition but leaves room for individuals to act nobly and courageously. The book was published in 2003 but is mainly set in the early 1980s. David Race Bannon, a worldweary but experienced Interpol agent relates his early career and discovers the love for family which has so obviously been missing in his life. The true-life characterisations and Bannon's eye for personal detail help give the book it's gorgeously bleak feel, and of course Bannon wants to make the point that the morally relativistic world of espionage is inherently desensitising and dehumanising. The book poses the question "Are there any good guys left or have all sunk to the lowest common denominator?" Overall, this is one of the best books I have read. Although there is little in the way of Bond-style action, the psychological twists and turns in it make for a more genuine, tense story. If you are looking for an alternative to contemporary fictional Tom Clancy-style tech-spy-thrillers or cliched true-crime potboilers, Bannon is a must-read. To say more about the book would be to spoil too much. Let's just say as well as the deeper questions it posits, it has a fast-paced, thrilling storyline which may even appeal to lovers of lower grade spy thrillers. Buy it! You won't regret it.
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Summary: A beautifully written book in tragic circumstances.
Review: This book was extremely well written. It is not sentimental in any way, but outlines very well and plainly the moods and emotions that David Race Bannon went through while coming to terms with his friends' deaths and the miserable evil of child sex slavery - a trade that by all acounts should never happen, which makes it all the harder to bear. This story also shows the horrors when the intelligence profession goes 'above the law', which I am sure happens not just in France. Hopefully, because of this book, people will be more aware of what can happen and will be more willing to challenge the intelligence profession than has been the case thus far. This is a very well written and moving story and once you start the book you will not want to put it down. I read it in a Saturday afternoon.
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Summary: Life Validation
Review: David Bannon's book, Race Against Evil, is a validation of his decision to give up Interpol and seek a deeper bond with his family. He is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in life, be they those of raising a family, working for the good of oneself and one's neighbors, protecting innocents, redemption, loving. His straightforward search for a life connected to his daughter, for marriage as a sacrament and family life, for a peace with today that overcomes the horror of yesterday, affirms a style that is resonant with the authentic. For all his earthiness, Mr. Bannon is a sophisticated, philosophical writer whose prose shines with the wisdom of one who has thought deeply about the terror and wonder of life.
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Summary: brilliant
Review: I liked this book. I liked it's story line it's descriptiveness (which I would describe as unstoppable.) and it's choice in music lyrics (this assassin has good taste.). A young missionary turns into a hitman with fatal repurcusions for both him and his friends....a good read and a good adition to any true crime collection.
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Summary: A wonderful read
Review: This book was a last minute purchase, didn't have anything to read and this was in the newspaper. . . and rightly so. it is a wonderful book that makes you reassess everything that you once thought to be important. the book changes the way you thought about many things and makes you appreciate what you have got.
It's written in a very personal way and is a book than can be picked up at any time of day. I guarantee that you will enjoy this book for what it is - a book of true emotion and a tale of injustice.
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Summary: this book was absolutely inspiring!
Review: the way that this book was written is so very passionate truthful and i love it!
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Summary: Breathtaking
Review: Beautiful writing, sad and compelling. David Race Bannon's autobiography only has one fault: I could not stop reading it and whizzed through the book so fast I was left at the end wishing it had lasted longer. The reader is given a picture of another world and how international agents really live. David Race Bannon has a way with language, finding just the right turn of phrase and writing with a style so perfect that I truly enjoyed every single sentence. He is also an inspiration to everyone who wishes to make something of their life and step outside the boundaries life seems to impose on them.
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Summary: wow...
Review: I have never really got into biographys until now, and this is probably the one that got me into them. This book is full of suprises and feelings that are undescrible like the feeling of betrayal and heartbreak. This book got it all in one. It also explains the tactics of combat and Interpol perfectly to a stranger such as me can understand. Read it, love it, treasure it.
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Summary: Great modern memoirist
Review: David Race Bannon writes with a skill which surely ranks him amongst the great modern memoirists. Race Against Evil brings us the ultimate anti-hero and at risk are his life and soul - the end is sweeter because it's all true. We meet the French superspy, Jacques Defferre, a character who is both cold-blooded and yet provides a human interest. Perhaps the most interesting persons (other than the author) are the eccentric Interpol agent Eunmi and the delightfully Machiavellian Lee Hyung-jin, Korean secret service. Race Against Evil is an autobiography of fighting child slavery, of assassination and ruthless villans. It is both informative and approachable. And provides a very good read.
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