Dear Alertees,

This is not an April Fool’s Day joke. You have only TWELVE HOURS to go before our one-off Crikey subscription offer closes. It’s very simple: if you subscribe today to the Crikey Daily for $100 – that’s 40 cents a day – you can choose any one of the following books worth between $13.95 and $49.95 from the following list — absolutely FREE:

Absolute Friends by John le Carré ($49.95 hardback)
Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket by Gideon Haigh ($32)
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson ($25)
The Best Australian Essays 2004 edited by Robert Dessaix ($24.95)
The Chance of Politics by Paul Hasluck ($28)
Travels in American Iraq by John Martinkus ($24.95)
Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics, Quarterly Essay No 16 by Raimond Gaita ($13.95)
The Australian Century edited by Robert Manne ($27.50)

If you don’t take up this offer, and remain an alertee, you’ll only get a small taste of what Crikey has to offer. To see what you’re missing, the stories you can read appear on the index in blue, and those for subscribers only are red.

The clock is ticking … there are just twelve hours left to claim your free book and get the full, undiluted, uncensored dose of Crikey every day.