The End of October

by Lawrence Wright

In the chaos of depravity that followed the fall of the empire, this singular individual had the advantage of knowing what he wanted. He wanted revenge. He had taken aim at the very heart of America—democracy—and his shot was true. As Tildy sat in the Situation Room with some of the most powerful leaders of government, not one of them would say that Putin had pulled the trigger and damn if he hadn’t gotten away with

DISEASES HAVE A history of stirring up conspiracies. Jews were held responsible for the Black Plague in the fourteenth century, and they were massacred in hundreds of European cities, including two thousand Jews burned alive in Strasbourg, France, on Valentine’s Day, 1349.

Henry inhaled the steam from his cup. “What’s that spice?” he asked. “Cardamom, cloves, and saffron,” Majid said. “We are addicted to this concoction.”

“A friend of mine once said that when good people do good, and evil people do evil, it is not surprising. But when good people do evil, it takes religion to do that.” “I think he saw a wound in you that cannot heal.”