Island Pond (Rockingham County, New Hampshire) Island Pond (Rockingham County, New Hampshire) Island Pond (sometimes referred to locally as Big Island Pond) is a water body located in Rockingham County in southern New Hampshire, in the towns of Derry, Hampstead and Atkinson. The pond is near the head of the Spicket River watershed, which feeds the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The pond was formed from the merger of two smaller bodies of water in 1878, when a dam raised the water level by 8.5 feet. The pond is named for Governor's Island, a island that lies within it. The island in turn is named for
Empire of Lies the absolute wrong-headedness of the default settings of its assumptions. Take it from a right-wing crackpot, 'tis the thriller of the season". "Publishers Weekly" was also effusive in their praise, finding it to be a "wickedly satiric thriller" which "builds to an explosive climax". Empire of Lies Empire of Lies is a 2008 thriller novel written by screenwriter and Edgar-winner Andrew Klavan. The book takes its title from a quote by Ron Paul, "Truth is treason in an empire of lies." The book is a thriller in which the protagonist Jason Harrow, a politically conservative Christian, believes that he has