The History Book Club discussion

This is a buddy read set up by request.

by Matthew Alexander

Start Date will be April 25, 2011 (or some time during that week) and ending on May 22, 2011. We always start on Mondays so this will work out well. If anyone needs more time; the threads will be open to accomodate.

Remember this is a spoiler thread and anything can be discussed in any order unless you determine how you will read this book and your timeline for discussion of different chapters. We allow each buddy read leader to set things up at their own pace.

Remember, if you cite any other book except for the discussion book for which this thread is named you must do full citations of both the book and the authors.

Good luck and have fun.

Bentley

by Matthew Alexander

About the book;

The electrifying true story of the pursuit for the man behind al Qaeda’s suicide bombing campaign in Iraq

Kill or Capture is a true-life thriller that tells the story of senior military interrogator Matthew Alexander’s adrenalinefilled, “outside the wire” pursuit of a notorious Syrian mass murderer named Zafar—the leader of al Qaeda in northern Iraq—a killer with the blood of thousands of innocents on his hands.

In a breathless thirty-day period, Alexander and a small Special Operations task force brave the hazards of the Iraqi insurgency to conduct dangerous kill-or-capture missions and hunt down a murderer. Kill or Capture immerses readers in the dangerous world of battlefield interrogations as the author and his team climb the ladder of al Qaeda leadership in a series of raids, braving roadside bombs, near death by electrocution and circles within circles of lies.

About the author;
For more info on the author's books and on the author, here is his website;
http://authors.simonandschuster.com.a...
Matthew Alexander spent fourteen years in the U.S. Air Force and is now part of the U.S. Air Force Reserves. He has personally conducted more than 300 interrogations in Iraq and supervised more than 1,000. Matthews was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his achievement in Iraq, has two advanced degrees, and speaks three languages. When he's not chasing the world's most wanted, he goes surfing.

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I can't find this book anywhere, so it looks like I'm not going to read it with you...but it's on my list of books to keep an eye out for!

Oh darn. That's a shame. It wasn't a big book either which would have made it easier for you to fit it in. It's an odd size. It has a normal amount of pages, but it is a smallish size hardback.

Kristi, this book is on Kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Capture-Op...

You can get it used from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listin...

You can get an app for your computer free from Borders and download it from the Borders website:

Around $12.00

http://www.borders.com/online/store/T...

Barnes and Noble has it:

You can download a free nook app to your PC, iPad, etc and then download the book: $12.99 and it is lendable so that you can share it with somebody else that is reading it here. Maybe you can share the cost.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Kill...

Half.com has it:

http://product.half.ebay.com/Kill-or-...

All great ideas, Bentley.
I really like that this new technology is lendable.

Thanks, but unfortunately I am going this year without buying books...sooooo that means I had to be able to find it somewhere for free. Silly resolutions!

Yes, the nook app can be downloaded free even to your PC and then you can download the book. When it is lendable; you can share the book with a friend for up to 14 days. So you could pay $12.99 for the lendable book; read it and then lend it to one other person who can read it for 14 days. During that time you cannot be reading it; but that is OK because you have read it already and then you lent it. Each of you could go in on the one copy for $6.50 each and both read the book.

It is such a new book (Feb 2011).
I imagine quite a few U.S libraries wouldn't have it yet. My Australian library only had it because I requested they buy it in. Tasha was lucky her library has a copy. :)

Yes for sure - because in hardcover (the print version) is expensive.

But the above free e-reader apps would allow Kristi to download it to her PC if she did not have a Kindle, a Nook, ipod, iphone or ipad and even if she did - she could also download it to any of the above for less than half the price. Paying $25.00 or $30.00 is a lot of money these days for one book so the cost is more palatable.

Bentley wrote: "Paying $25.00 or $30.00 is a lot of money these days for one book so the cost is more palatable. "
So true.