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Heather's Pick
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“A riveting work of narrative non-fiction that starts with a ticking bomb and doesn’t let up, Steven Johnson’s The Infernal Machine is a fascinating and propulsive look at the invention of dynamite, the rise of anarchism, and the origins of today’s massive surveillance systems. I tore through it in two days and couldn’t put it down!”