Simple Sabotage Field Manual

How it reads

Simple Sabotage Field Manual is narrative nonfiction (wartime propaganda manual, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in an international setting, in the historical past, told through letters, documents or mixed forms. Its central concerns are war, power and politics and justice. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 38 pages it's a single-sitting book. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.