The Art of War Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2015) • Continued doing something you

• Continued doing something you knew was bad for you

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” — Publishers Weekly

This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder

The Art of War Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2015) • Continued doing something youSun Tzu was one of the greatest army generals who ever lived. He wrote The Art of War in the fifth century BC. His writings on aspects of warfare from the laying of plans to the tactics and psychology of manoeuvering an army, to the proper use of spies, resonate for us in this world of cut throat, ruthless business.