{"id":1710565,"date":"2022-10-25T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710565"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:34:26","slug":"help-me-two-words-send-an-english-professor-deep-into-big-techs-dark-side-in-andrew-klavans-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/help-me-two-words-send-an-english-professor-deep-into-big-techs-dark-side-in-andrew-klavans-new-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Help Me\u2019: Two Words Send An English Professor Deep Into Big Tech\u2019s Dark Side In Andrew Klavan\u2019s New Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhelp-me-two-words-send-an-english-professor-deep-into-big-techs-dark-side-in-andrew-klavans-new-novel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710565&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two words from a former student \u2014 \u201cHelp me\u201d \u2014 send English professor and former spy Cameron Winter on a deep dive into the dark side of big tech in Andrew Klavan\u2019s newest novel, \u201cA Strange Habit of Mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Klavan\u2019s book, a sequel to the 2021 mystery \u201cWhen Christmas Comes,\u201d follows Winter as he digs into the possible connection between his former student \u2014 Adam Kemp \u2014 and big tech billionaire Gerald Byrne. Byrne is a loving husband and father, a visionary, and an eccentric philanthropist at the top of a social media empire \u2014 called Byrner \u2014 whose good work somehow appears to leave behind a trail of bodies.<\/p>\n<p>When Kemp allegedly commits suicide just after reaching out to him for help, Winter relies on a talent he refers to as a \u201cstrange habit of mind\u201d \u2014 the ability to put himself into a crime scene and imagine all the possible ways in which the events could have played out. When he applies that trick to Kemp\u2019s final moments, he finds that a number of things don\u2019t quite add up \u2014 and that is when he learns that Kemp was entangled with Byrne\u2019s niece.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The sequel to &#8220;When Christmas Comes&#8221; has arrived. Cameron Winter returns in A Strange Habit of Mind: A Cameron Winter Mystery (Cameron Winter Mysteries) \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T8oXSzSdZ3\">https:\/\/t.co\/T8oXSzSdZ3<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amazon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewklavan\/status\/1584860743329251328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Klavan describes Winter as a sort of flawed anti-hero \u2014 a man who is clearly burdened by some of the things he did in the name of his country as a spy and may see uncovering the truth about Kemp as a way to balance the scales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinter is an anti-hero trying to become a hero, and I find that incredibly poignant and compelling. How the hell do you become a good man?\u201d Klavan asked. \u201cMen tend to think of The Good as something that\u2019s opposed to The Bad: the cop who fights crime, the doctor who cures disease, the fireman and so on. Winter takes that battle on with all its shadows but he\u2019s also looking for something else: love, beauty, creation, redemption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Strange Habit of Mind\u201d is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strange-Habit-Mind-Cameron-Mystery-ebook\/dp\/B09V3KTGGJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> and at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/a-strange-habit-of-mind-andrew-klavan\/1141123840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnes &#038; Noble<\/a>. Signed copies are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/shop\/products\/a-strange-habit-of-mind-by-andrew-klavan-signed-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two words from a former student \u2014 \u201cHelp me\u201d \u2014 send English professor and former spy Cameron Winter on a deep dive into the dark side of big tech in Andrew Klavan\u2019s newest novel, \u201cA Strange Habit of Mind.\u201d Klavan\u2019s book, a sequel to the 2021 mystery \u201cWhen Christmas Comes,\u201d follows Winter as he digs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}