Welcome to the World Next Week's special summer reading episode.

I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carly Ann Robbins.

Every year we look forward to sitting down to discuss books we've read and plan to read as well as other movies, TV, and podcasts we'd like to recommend for these slightly more laid-back months.

And joining us today for this summer podcast spectacular is author, columnist, podcaster, and professor Rosa Brooks.

This is Rosa's debut appearance on the world next week.

Rosa holds the Scott K. Ginsburg chair in Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center

and is an associate dean for centers and institutes.

Rosa is also an adjunct senior scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute,

and you can listen to her on weekly foreign policy podcast Deep State Radio.

So Rosa, welcome to the world next week.

Thanks for having me. And just one reminder about one of our summer reading show ground rules.

We do not tout the books produced by our CFR colleagues. Now, all year long, we highlight the stellar

CFR publications on our usual programming, which includes our fellow podcast, The President's Inbox.

But today we'd like to spotlight the fantastic authors and creators we've come across outside

of the council.

So, Rose, as our guest, you get first dibs on sharing the book you've recently read

and that we should be adding to our summer list.

Yeah, I thought I would talk about a book called 70 Times seven by Alex Marr. I'm trying to remember

actually what the subtitle of 70 times seven is. I found it. It's a true story of murder and

mercy. And it's a book by a Rolling Stone journalist. It's actually sort of hard to say what

it's about. What's interesting is that if you read a lot of the reviews, and I reviewed this myself for the post, and if you read a lot of the other reviews, they'll tell you that it's a story about redemption and mercy. It's about a young woman who was accused of committing a terrible crime. She murdered an elderly woman, stabbed her to death over a botched

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