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Terrorist Hunter is written by a non-fictional FBI Agent called Tamer Elnoury. He narrates his incredibly moving story of his work undercover, posing as an Al-Qaeda sympathiser. His ultimate mission, to take down one of the biggest terrors plots the world has ever seen at the hands of Al-Qaeda. Throughout the book, as a reader, I learned about the regime and inside nature of an Al-Qaeda operative, actively capitalising on his misinterpretation of the teachings of Islam and the Quran.  I learned about the differences between American and Canadian undercover systems, for example how the Canadians would typically keep their own agents in the dark, whereas the US has a much higher rate of intel sharing amongst their most trusted political allies. They have the same motivation- to protect the Homeland, but they often differ in their approach. Tamer Elnoury also describes how the issue of national jurisdictions can cause complications for when the legal process begins once the terror...

After having read the Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine, I first felt an immense sense of accomplishment. This Is because even though, I take a keen interest in Biology and the natural sciences, I do not study them full time, and I was able to understand the underpinnings of Raine’s arguments for the Biological roots of crime.   Adrian Raine was born in Darlington 1954, he is currently Professor of Criminology at the Richard Perry University Pennsylvania. His current research is based around Biological interventions for Anti-social behaviour, part of this research involves structural brain scanning to identify patterns in the brains of violent offenders. Raine also specialises in Neurocriminology and is in my opinion, the future of the movement of the discipline along with his previous PhD supervisor Peter Venables.   Throughout the book, Raine would talk about a leading argument and weigh it with substantial evidence. Much of this evidence I did agree would be a f...