<p>Mr. Davis gives us a film noir collection of intriguing, heart breaking, and insightful essays.&nbsp;Real people and actual events emerge from this collection in ways you won't forget. Each draws us deeper into the questions we raise when we demand others serve in the&nbsp;secret world for their country.</p><p><br></p><p>In Around the Corner we find more thought provoking true stories from the Cold War,&nbsp;its bloody aftermath, and our own America today. Rain swept streets and dark corners serve not only as background, but also as metaphor. Around dark corners on a rainy street, what seems at first glance clear, might not be so. We see only indistinct outlines, as&nbsp;through a glass darkly; what may be true, could as well be only partly so, or even tragically false. So too with our beliefs about who we are. He observes events, people, laws,&nbsp;chance, and history from the perspective of a soldier, historian, liaison officer, husband&nbsp;and father.</p><p><br></p><p>Davis reminds us that actions in the secret world, especially against spies and terrorists, when conducted by a liberal democracy, give no one a free pass from basic right and wrong. You'll find a strange new world tantalizingly&nbsp;revealed here. You'll even find reason for hope.</p>