EATING WITH THE ENEMY How I Waged Peace With North Korea From My BBQ Shack in Hackensack

Here’s a rare conceit for a book: You own a barbecue restaurant in New Jersey, but through various means you are able to establish a relationship with the North Korean government, which allows you to play a role in international diplomacy. It’s a great story, and it’s well written. Narrator Traber Burns has a down-home style that sounds like he’s sitting on his porch telling us this unique personal story. Burns’s voice is somewhat scratchy, and he tends to swallow some words because he reads too fast, but because he’s narrating a regular guy’s story, it works, for the most part. He varies his voice for some characters but generally plays it straight. R.I.G. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2011]