Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin Classics_Gift_Guide an M80 firework in the

an M80 firework in the mailbox—The Summer Friend is simultaneously a potent evocation of the rhythms and rituals of summer and a stirring remembrance of a friend found and then lost

For the last seven years Callie has been wearing a bracelet of black beads up her wrist

Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune

celebrating an unforgettable story that shaped the whimsy

Rachel Held Evans offers courage and companionship for those wrestling with the biggest questions of faith

Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin Classics_Gift_Guide an M80 firework in theWhile at Purdue University on an NROTC scholarship in 1971, Roland Haas was recruited to become a CIA deep clandestine operative. He underwent intensive training to prepare for insertion into hostile areas, including High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachuting and weapons instruction. In the course of his first mission (to East and West Germany, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bulgaria, Romania, and Austria), he assassinated several