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The series is a brooding look at the lives of thuggish Irish brothers who watch one another's backs by killing and brutalizing virtually everyone else in New York.
It certainly can be argued that no amount of positive intervention could have deflected the thuggish and bizarre leadership of North Korea from its bum-rush into the nuclear club, but one observation can be made with some confidence: When dealing with a paranoid it is perhaps best not to nurture his most dangerous delusions.
Ultimately, neither book provides a satisfying answer to this central question: How do the Burmese generals, a thuggish and largely uneducated bunch, resist the spread of democracy, even though their population reads books, follows world events on the radio, and has been willing to protest in the past?
 
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