Title: Recommended by retired state dept. intelligence acquaintance
Product review: It's interesting that the negative or luke warm reviews of this book seem unhappy because it's not like watching some sort of action movie or reading a spy thriller; that says a lot about the reviewers who, as is often the case in so many amazon reviews, condemns a leopard for not having stripes instead of judging the book in its own terms.This book was recommended to me by a retired state department intelligence official, and so it clearly has some authoritative endorsement. Read it, not as a spy thriller, but for what it reveals about military operations and the incompetence of certain elements in our government whose ineptitude continues in Iraq.
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