He attempts to justify his breach of trust with his govt and his country. He does raise some very pertinent issues relating to mass surveillance of all citizens.

Deep in a tunnel under a pineapple field — a subterranean Pearl Harbor-era former airplane factory — I sat at a terminal from which I had practically unlimited access to the communications of nearly every man, woman and child on earth who'd ever dialed a phone or touched a computer."

Also started reading this.
We are living in the most peaceful times of our history

Who am I? It was a question that troubled him all his life. His whole had seemed entangled in the answer. His dignity, his destination, his ambitions - they all seemed linked to that entanglement.

Started reading this book..
Karna incidentally is my fav Mahabharat character.

If you‘re an xkcd fan, Randall Monroe has a new book out, entitled How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems.

For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it...

A fiction debut, an exceptional thriller that boasts a credible narrator who has had so many covert identities he can barely remember his original name.

Soul-weary Scott Murdoch (aka Pilgrim) has retired fm the top echelon of ultrasecret espionage, but duty calls him back into service.

Like many pilgrimages, this one is long, packed with unexpected menace but readers will agree that this journey of body and soul is well worth the effort.

She is beautiful. And married, loves her husband very much. She is a painter. He is a fashion photographer.
Their life is perfect! And then one day, she kills him.
With five bullets fired right in his face.
And then she goes silent.

A psychotherapist wants to help her.

One of the most unassuming books, with the most underrated narration I have read in recent times. And yet, when it hits you, it takes your breath away!