Ready to curl up with a good book? Want to advance your knowledge of risk management?

Great! You can kill two birds with one stone (or heavy book). Your author annually ventures a humble (and admittedly subjective) opinion on the best risk management books to come out over the past year. This time is no exception. A drum roll, please, as I open the envelope. And the winners are, in no particular order:

The Three Faces of Executive Liability by Richard Clarke, Academy of Producer Insurance Studies, P.O. Box 27027, Austin, TX 78755-2027, 800-526-2777, $25 + $2.50 S&H. The author, an executive with Palmer & Cay in Atlanta, also wrote the excellent 1994 book, Maximizing Coverage — Minimizing Costs. Clarke’s newer book focuses on the exposures, coverages, and risk management aspects of directors and officers, employment practices liability, and fiduciary liability.