I saw Security by Stephen Amidon in a local store called the Bargain Book Warehouse and liked the style of the cover. So, I pulled that taboo: I judged a book by its cover.

However, if you're feeling lazy, it's been posted below for convenience. It'd mean a lot if you clicked the link and read the review. I read and reviewed this book on my blog No, But Wait, Hear Me Out. The Sublime Engine with his brother Tom, a cardiologist, and Something Like the Gods which is dedicated to his son, Alexander, who plays football for Boston College. Amidon has written two non-fiction books. A film adaptation of Human Capital is currently in preproduction in Italy for director Paolo Virzi. The novel Human Capital was chosen by Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Post as one of the five best works of fiction of 2004. His fiction has been published in fifteen countries. Amidon is the author of a collection of short stories and six novels, the most recent of which, Security, was published by FSG in 2009. His literary criticism and essays have appeared in many publications in North America and the UK and he has also worked as a film critic for the Financial Times and the Sunday Times. He was awarded an Arts Council of Great Britain bursary for the short story in 1990. Shortly after this Amidon sold his first work of fiction the short story 'Echolocation' was chosen by Ian Hamilton for inclusion in the Bloomsbury anthology Soho Square II. He moved to London, UK, in 1987, where he was given his first job as a critic by Auberon Waugh, who invited him to review a novel for The Literary Review. Carswell Scholar, majoring in philosophy. Amidon attended Wake Forest University as a Guy T. He grew up on the East Coast of the United States of America, including a spell in Columbia, Maryland, which served as the inspiration for his fourth novel The New City. Stephen Amidon (born 1959, in Chicago) is an American author and film critic.