Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2015-01-08
Books mentioned on 191. Why Doesn’t Everyone Get the Flu Vaccine?
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Stephen Dubner discussed The Way of the Knife by Mark Mazzetti.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Way of the Knife
Discussed“And he wrote a book. The book is called The Way of the Knife. The subtitle is The CIA, A Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth. It's about the, what I call the shadow war,”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Way of the Knife
“So as I write about it in my book, right after the raid, Shaquille Afridi, CIA handler, meets him and gives him some money and a bus ticket to Kabul to go over the border into Afghanistan, basically to escape.”
Passing Catch-22
“Although, to paraphrase Joseph Heller, just because you've got vaccine paranoia doesn't mean they aren't after you. So, what's to be done about it?”