Despite All My Belly-Aching, I Couldn't Resist...

...and just devoured the first 3 chapters of "Out of the Gray Zone."

This is good stuff. I see Bill St. Clair is passionate in his praise:

"Wow! Claire and Aaron have hit the ball out of the park, hit it out of the city, hit it out of orbit, hit the moon, and put a hole clean through. And that's an understatement. Tears dripped from my face. Tears of joy. Tears of anger sated. Tears of hope for our world. May it never get as bad as they envisioned. May we, each contributing as he or she can, prevent that future, and listen to that inner voice of what is right, what is decent, what is necessary, what must be. And make it so."

Now I need to go work for a few hours so I can be back in time for my 10-year-old son's electric guitar recital.

No rest for the wicked, or some such...