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This Book is Riveting in its Explosive Subject Matter

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I stopped reading Danger Close Domestic Extremist #1 Comes Clean by Patrick Byrne 31% into the book just long enough to urge those who appreciated his previous book The Deep Rig to get this new one to read. I was at the part in the book that started “In early February 2016, I met with the two FBI agents again. They brought a third agent, for the following reason. They said that in 2008 a law was passed that made it possible, under certain circumstances, for the Director of…” You’ll have to read the book for more details (I don’t want to rankle the AI surveillance of content for triggers), but this one made my head explode. Some may think this book’s more fable than truth, more fairy tale than actual entanglements with the USG involving diverse covert operations over a lengthy period of time, but remember “Truth is stranger than fiction.”  Byrne is intelligent, discreet, adroitly adaptive and analytical, and has been relied upon by many in the upper echelons of DC elite. His ac...