Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a matchless writer debater & humanist. Throughout his life he shone the light of reason & truth into the eyes of charlatans & hucksters exposing falsehood & decrying hypocrisy wherever he found it. With his passing the world has lost a great soul the written word one of its finest advocates & those who stand for freedom everywhere have lost one of their clearest voices. Arguably collects Hitchens writing on politics literature & religion when he was at the zenith of his career; it is the indispensible companion to the finest English essayist since Orwell.