Mal Warwick on Books: Insightful Reviews and Recommendations

His name is Walter “Bird” McIntyre. He is the leading Washington lobbyist for Groepping-Sprunt, a major arms contractor for the Pentagon. A Senate committee is meeting to consider a huge appropriation for his latest weapons system—an ocean-liner-sized drone aircraft armed with every manner of destructive weaponry known to the military-industrial complex. Testifying on the...

In 2022, a 17-year-old computer wizard named Theo Baker entered Stanford University. Besotted with idealism, he’d come to California believing that Stanford could enable him to make the world a better place. As a “hobby,” he volunteered for the Stanford Daily student newspaper. And over the ensuing months, as he explored the culture on campus, he wrote several in...

When Tony Hillerman died at the age of 83 in 2008, he left behind an extensive literary legacy that included the 18 books in his award-series of Navajo detective novels. The Leaphorn and Chee books won him plaudits throughout the world and made him a wealthy man. Five ye...

Women did not begin to gain any measure of equality with men until sometime in the 20th century. So it is always inspiring to read about women whose accomplishments were so outstanding that even under the most egregious pressure of misogyny they made their mark on history. One exceptional woman, who is little known today except in her field of specialization, was the Germ...

Leonard Summers; his wife, Martha; and son, Bernard, are moving into a remote cabin in Minnesota. But his name isn’t Leonard Summers. It’s Leonid Sokolov. And “he was in some kind of enforcement branch of the Russian spy agency,” Lucas Davenport explains to fellow US Marshal Shelly White. “He’s probably killed more people than the Marshals Service.” Lucas and Shelly are o...