"My take on Gates is very simple: I don't believe he has laid out a clear strategy" for Afghanistan, said Bing West, a former Marine officer, Pentagon official during the Reagan administration and author of a scorching new book on Afghanistan, "The Wrong War".
You might end up scorching your book or setting your tissue on fire.
The essayist and apostate E. M. Cioran has a scorching phrase in his book "Tears and Saints": he writes there of the "voluptuousness of suffering".
Along with many of the city's artists and writers, he found himself driven out by the forces of gentrification, moved to Los Angeles, where he's now based, set up his own small press, and wrote this book – a scorching satire of how a few hypercapitalist companies in Silicon Valley have come to dominate everything.
This book is a scorching indictment of bumbling law enforcement there.
But even as his reputation evaporated, his self-absorption and his bitchery — there's no better word — continued unabated, and they leap off the pages of Mr. Margolick's book with a scorching unpleasantness.
Her indictment, which Daisy Hay says is now being published for the first time, comes only at the end of "Young Romantics" yet sends a blast of scorching fury back across the entire book.
These tragedies heavily scorched the poems of his fourth book, the one which is most likely to endure and for which he is most famous, Crow.
Marcus Sedgwick, whose cold-climate novel Revolver must surely have just missed the Carnegie medal, has set the edgily disturbing White Crow (Orion Children's Books £9.99) in a scorching summer on the crumbling Suffolk coast.
Dashner's take on zombies (or rather, 'Cranks') was explored a lot more in this book than in The Scorch Trials, particularly with certain information about the Flare being revealed in this novel.
