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   Lynn McGuire to William Hyde   
   Re: "Amongst Our Weapons "by Ben Aaronvi   
   14 Oct 25 15:29:19   
   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/13/2025 1:30 PM, William Hyde wrote:   
   > Don wrote:   
   >> Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   >>>   Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>       "Amongst Our Weapons "by Ben Aaronvitch   
   >>>>         Hard cover 294 pages from DAW Books $27 US.   
   >>>>       Well I may have read this before but it was a romp.   
   >>>>       Ben Aaronvitch with his Rivers of London series seldom   
   >>>> disappoints   
   >>>>       Amongst Our Weapons is another tale of Peter Grant in the Folly   
   >>>>       and out to Manchester where he releases, but no that would be   
   >>>>       telling.  He is a very busy sort with magic rings and heart   
   >>>> ripping   
   >>>>       murders. Lesley is on the scene but still being criminal in her   
   >>>>       behavior. Even our Tank-breaking wizard Nightengale is not   
   >>>>       able to handle the Spanish Inquisition's Angel of Death but   
   >>>>       Peter does and releases the Spanish woman enslaved to be   
   >>>>       the Angel.   
   >>>   
   >>> I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!   
   >>>   
   >>> ...though with that title, maybe I should have.   
   >>   
   >> The Gaza genocide guy's father, Polish Jew Benzion Mileikowsky, alias   
   >> Benzion Netanyahu, wrote a book on the Spanish Inquisition entitled THE   
   >> ORIGINS OF THE INQUISITION IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY SPAIN:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >> Long story short, Sicut Judaeis prohibits Catholics from mistreating   
   >> Jews   
   >   
   > And the USSR had a wonderful constitution, full of respect for human   
   > rights.   
   ...   
      
   Wasn't it Stalin who said, "Show me the man, I will tell you the crime."?   
      
   Lynn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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