David Halliburton has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors. The most-rated is Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation.
The Star Family
Summary
A secret spiritual group. A recurring dream. A 400-year-old ritual must be completed before it is too late. Jane Frey inherits a Gothic mansion filled with unexpected treasures: original paintings by 18th-century visionary William Blake, secret rooms, and an ancient underground cavern. A prophecy claims it hides an important artifact - the key to an energy grid laid down by the Founding Fathers themselves. Whoever controls this grid controls the very centers of world power. Except Jane has no idea what they're looking for.
©2013 Theresa Crater (P)2014 Theresa Crater
Unseen Carnage
Summary
Fort Worth Police Detective Jake "Cowboy" Hunter finds himself looking down the barrel of a gun after chasing a suspect through a dark alley. His split second reaction saves his life, ends another, and launches his team on a fast-paced search for the truth. What seems to be an open-and-shut case of homicide turns into a complicated series of murders and drug overdoses intertwined in the world of narcotics distribution, forcing Hunter and his team to suspect both the good guys and the bad guys. While Hunter struggles with his role in taking a life, his partner Detective Billy Sanders helps lead the investigation as they discover the hidden impact of drugs on users, dealers, first responders, and their families. Hunter's team enlists the help of the FWPD Narcotics division and even Internal Affairs to sort through a confusing web of suspects, victims, leads, and false clues on their way to resolution. And redemption. The revelations don't stop until the very end. The story highlights the collateral damage of America's unsuccessful War on Drugs, and how even casual drug use causes devastating consequences. Unseen Carnage is the third of the Jake Hunter series of mystery/suspense novels.
©2016 Joe B. Parr (P)2016 Joe B. Parr
Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
Summary
Many Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government. During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject's resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America's moral authority as a world leader. The book is published by University of Wisconsin Press.
©2012 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks