A light ramble over the history and geography of three presidential assassinations. Great fun. This book has a strange tie-in with ‘The Biggest Game in Town’: they both refer to Ken Smith, the chess and poker player who was Bobby Fisher’s second when he played Boris Spassky in Reykjavik.
Wow, what a book! An account of the 1981 World Series of poker, focusing on the personalities and strange sub-culture of the high-stakes professional gambling circuit.
Wright presents an excellent overview of evolutionary psychology and delves a little into some of the moral issues it raises.