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https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780385548533/london-falling · 16 May 2026
...I have no fear, 'cause London is drownin' and I, I live by the river... You can't write a book called London Falling and convince me it's wholly unrelated to London Calling . Perhaps it is, perhaps it's a coincidence. I have a hard time believing it was...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780786014224/killer-clown · 3 Mar 2026
I have an on and off again relationship with true crime. I found I'll Be Gone in the Dark to be both riveting and terrifying. Adnan's Story was another gripping read. [Killer Clown](Killer Clown) isn't a bad read, really, but it feels a bit flat and fairly...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781775492955/underworld · 9 Feb 2026
Underworld is more of the same from Jared Savage, but not in the bad way that that phrase typically connotes. It's a necessary conclusion to a trilogy of books that remain novel for their locale and interesting due to the characters that populate them. It ...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781775492405/gangsters-paradise · 1 Feb 2026
This and Gangland could very well have been a single book. They both stand on their own, but Gangster’s Paradise is a continuation in style, structure, setting and the cast of characters it features. It sees new gangs, new methods, new players and new te...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781775541622/gangland · 25 Jan 2026
An interesting and easy read on the drug and gang landscape in New Zealand. It reads as a series of vignettes with connections across several of the stories. The author is an investigative reporter in New Zealand covering this exact beat so he has plenty o...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780593655085/the-fort-bragg-cartel · 20 Dec 2025
It’s not at all surprising that starting forever wars, giving elite forces license to do whatever they want while enabling and covering for their worst behavior would produce all sorts of negative outcomes. In The Fort Bragg Cartel Seth Harp lays out one...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781668032909/code-name-pale-horse · 11 Aug 2025
A reasonably engaging piece of copaganda . The groups the author helped impede, bring down and infiltrate are all, with little argument, terrible and his actions — as described — were well intentioned, a thing he was trained to do and accomplished the ...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781668065396/the-house-of-my-mother · 12 Jul 2025
A compelling, empathetic and flawed read. It certainly draws you in, but much of the detail of the author’s experience(s) with her mother is surface level. You know there’s more there, you can feel it, but it’s left unsaid. It’s a pattern that repe...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780312998035/cruel-deception · 1 Jul 2025
Gregg Olsen’s Cruel Deception is a faithful retelling of a factitious disorder imposed on another (originally Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP)). Equal time is given to the defendant and prosecution with yet more given to the children that were victimi...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780316365789/black-tunnel-white-magic · 6 May 2025
I often look to the true crime genre for engaging narratives, detailed retellings of stories I'm perhaps only vaguely aware of and a simple interest in the genre. I wasn't aware if this case and I'm surprised I wasn't but it was overshadowed by other event...