Maggie's Farm

We link Dalrymple's stuff all the time. It's time to let you know about his new book, Threats of Pain and Ruin.

I learned, from the Amazon blurb, some things about him that I did not know:

Theodore Dalrymple is a former prison doctor and psychiatrist. He has been arrested as a spy in Gabon, been sought by the South African police for violating apartheid, visited the site of a civilian massacre by the government of Liberia, concealed his status as a writer for fear of execution in Equatorial Guinea, infiltrated an English communist group in order to attend the World Youth Festival in North Korea, performed Shakespeare in Afghanistan, smuggled banned books to dissidents in Romania, been arrested and struck with truncheons for photographing an anti-government demonstration in Albania and crossed both Africa and South America using only public transportation. He is also the author of more than two dozen books and innumerable essays.

If only half of that were true he'd be in line to be my next shrink - after I wear out my current confessore.

Prego, Dr. Ted.