Review: Guilty until proven innocent?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2010
As I'm writing this it's late on 9/11, the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  News, internet discussion, and talk wherever I've gone has been about this.  Islamic friends around the US are concerned about rumors of protests outside of mosques and burning of Qur'ans in a country founded on the precept of religious freedom and tolerance.By now you're asking, what does this have to do with "No Good Deed"?  Twenty years ago this book couldn't have been written.  Partly because the events of 9/11 figure into the plot, but more importantly because the actions of the government would have been unthinkable pre-9/11.  "No Good Deed" is both entertaining and suspenseful, but, regardless of your politics, should get you thinking.  Are the responses to 9/11 making the US a better or worse place to live?  Do we really win when laws are passed making it easier to combat terrorists if it also lessens our rights?  Shouldn't the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" still apply today?  "No Good Deed" gives you a chance to consider these questions from a perspective many of us haven't.