You end up constantly on guard, with your adrenaline pumping to the fight or flight responders in your brain, leaving your best intellectual power untapped and unavailable.
If you like fast planes, cool technology, heroic entrepreneurs who joust with the old guard and tale-telling worthy of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, then Free Flight is the book for your summer reading.
Based on prosecutors' argument that the former jet-setting IMF boss was a flight risk, the judge set stringent bail conditions, placing Mr Strauss-Kahn under house arrest with an armed guard.