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With Melissa Benoist Mehcad Brooks Chyler Leigh Jeremy Jordan. Supergirl is forced to do battle with an unexpected enemy as she risks ... Rank: #1486525 in BooksPublished on: 2008-03-13Released on: 2008-03-13Original language: EnglishNumber of items: 1Dimensions: 9.29" h x 1.15" w x 6.32" l, Binding: Hardcover576 pages 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.Not one of his bestBy LmannThis is not a Paul Christopher novel, despite the erroneous tag line on this paperback editionYes, some of the characters do appear in other Cheistopher novels, but in this one Christopher himself doesn't.I'm a big McCarry fan, but Better Angels annoyed me. I found the main premise - every character agonizing over the morality of assassinating a psychotic terrorist - unbelievable. McCarry creates characters of depth, but here they become insufferable hand-wringers. Additionally, there are futuristic elements - such as a former president financing a space expedition to a distant satellite of the planet Jupiter, and alleged concentration camps in Alaska - which is fine in a futuristic or satiric novel ala Vonnegut; but the tone of the book is realistic, as is the Christopher series. A lack of consistency in tone and material made this, for me, a frustrating read.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.Worst of McCarry's Otherwise Excellent BooksBy Andrew M. KleinI have nothing good to say about this failed effort. The presidential contenders (one the last preceding, former President and the other the sitting President) and election contest and struggle for political power that forms the basis for the tale are fantastic and unrealistically imagined. Worse, all is bottomed on the flimsiest of political concerns: the killing abroad of a terrorist religious figure and his son ordered by the President, presented as something to be kept secret if possible -- the American people, it is assumed, would be shocked by this and possession of the White House might turn on revelation of it, and to a degree are when this becomes known. (Hard to swallow today in our age of drones and hellfire missiles, isn't it) The story rotates on the search for evidence that the killing of the religious figure was merited (nuclear bombs were to have been delivered by the religious figure to terrorists, but were lost or somehow disappeared) during the election contest. Both candidates are possessed of considerable wealth (one from his wife's Kentucky family, the other self-made and at the billionaire level), beautiful, wonderful women to whom they are married, great intelligence and personal magnetism, and remarkable oratorical powers -- one a "man of the people" and the other a techno-social Darwinist with ties to powerful, unsavory corporate interests. Both command fanatic loyalty from their supporters and aids and just about everyone in the book is of one camp or the other. The main actors have come from wealth, it seems, the central ones other than the two candidates were educated at the finest schools (Yale seems to be a favorite of McCarry when pointing to hopeless, somehow flawed, often misguided and therefore dangerous liberals, with Harvard reserved for the more sensible, but similarly self-protective as a class), are excessively prosperous and successful and unfailingly beautiful or handsome and sexually attractive (with active love lives of one kind or another that too often interrupt whatever else is going on). All is played out in a not too distant future -- recall this was written in 1979 -- where cities are in decline, overrun by street criminality, lack of social services, and absurd environmentalism (diesel fueled cars only with strict rations of fuel, an absence of outdoor lights, no garbage pickups, and so on) under the pro-people, save-the-earth policies of the sitting President and against a backdrop of a spaceship and human crew arrival at a moon of Jupiter, conceived and executed by the former President, and sporadic terrorist events in the U.S. (two Supreme Court Justices, we are told in passing, were assassinated). The ideological orientation and political viewpoints represented by the leading figures are rigid, wooden, and unreasoning. In the end, two central to a new intelligence agency (created to replace the CIA with new independence rules after its "abuse" by "twentieth century presidents") with links to and animated by the sitting President's closest adviser, without the President's consent, arrange to fix the election to swing the contest, which otherwise would be lost. It is just about impossible to care about any of this or those who people this book, however well some of them are drawn. The result is cartoonish and disorienting, burying what otherwise might have been an interesting story about terrorists, political and corporate power, marriage, and loyalty. Too bad.Add 4/28/14: Better Angels is largely redeemed by its successor, Shelly's Heart, written some sixteen years later. Why it took so long to get to this is unclear, but one can speculate that the author was aware of its excesses (at least those concerning colonizing a moon of Jupiter, exaggerated disintegration of urban life and energy resources in America, the preposterous wealth of a major political character), realized how they distract from and blur his core political themes, and had his own problems reentering this tale from where he had left things in 1979. Shelly's Heart is a much better book, 4-5 stars in my view. The implied direct corporate money connection with terrorism remains, though, hard to credit, no matter how cynical we are. If you skip Better Angels, you won't miss much -- some, but not much -- when you pick up Shelly' Heart. McCarry addicts, however, and I am one, can leave nothing of his unread. Understandably.13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.A Prophetic Book with Many LayersBy T. BernerAs this book is about to celebrate its 30th anniversary, many have noted the current world events which mirror the plot in the book - self-detonating terrorists, weapons of mass destruction which can't be found, a polarized politics in America - it is quite eerie and one wishes that Mr. McCarry had still been in the CIA in the 1990s, when he could used his foresight to do something about al-Qaeda.On the surface, the book tells a simple tale. The GOP and the Democrats have been replaced by two unnamed parties, one emphasizing the head and one which draws its politics from the heart. With a backdrop of terrorism, the plot covers the 1996 Presidential election between a former President, Mallory, from the party of rationalism (head) and Lockwood, the sitting President from the party of the heart. Told primarily from the viewpoint of Lockwood partisans, the book seems on the surface to tell of the defeat of the sinister Mallory by machinations organized by the FIS (which has replaced the CIA) and Lockwood's Chief of Staff.But beneath that level, one begins to question just who is right and who is the sinister one. Everytime Mallory gets to speak, one of the pillars of his fascism seems more reasonable. We hear all along that Mallory had attempted to invade Canada, but he claims that his plan to unify the US and Canada was to be based on a referendum. Who's right Who knows And despite everyone's veneration of Lockwood, something is not right with the Potemkin Village we see: although everyone's use of gas is strictly rationed, Lockwood takes helicopters to and from his plantation in Kentucky and New York has become a wasteland, since Lockwood pays large sums of money to street gangs who have taken over the city. In the end, the party of the heart and the FIS undermine democracy by fixing the election, whereas, four years earlier, when Mallory was defeated by what was, perhaps, biased press coverage, he gracefully left office without pulling the coup that Lockwood and the FIS do.Does this make Mallory the hero No, it does not, but it also makes one question the bona fides of Lockwood and his regime. Ultimately, the point is that politics needs both sympathy and rationality and neither one or the other is adequate to govern the nation. The point also is that judging reality is harder to do than one thinks and depends largely where you stand. This point is made in the very last line of the book, in a conversation between a married pair of limousine liberals - easily the most obnoxious characters in the book - who have spent the book worried about being sent to a concentration camp in Alaska only to conclude that if Mallory had won, he and not Lockwood would be the guest of honor at their party.Everything McCarry writes is both more sophisticated and more readable than the standard spy tale.See all 22 customer reviews... "NCIS" Better Angels (TV Episode 2013) - IMDb With Mark Harmon Michael Weatherly Pauley Perrette Sean Murray. A Marine sergeant Dawson dies of gunfire during an alleged armed robbery of a men's clothing ... Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural ... The national upheaval of secession was a grim reality at Abraham Lincoln's inauguration. Jefferson Davis had been inaugurated as the President of the Confederacy two ... 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