After the runaway success of Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, Don Watson probably had carte blanche for his next book. For Death Sentence is plainly a labour of love, and the subject matter - the obtuse stupidity of public (managerial, political and media) language - infuriates him. In this highly amusing and passionate book, Watson excoriates what is, basically, the language of power. After an hysterical analysis of business language, Watson condemns modern war reporting as exemplified by journalists being 'embedded' with the army, saving his real spleen for the language of politics, with concepts such as core and non-core promises. To Watson's horror, much of this public language has now become part of everyday speech. Full of pithy quotes, this book is 'customer focused' and the customers are youse all. Read it and weep!