Title: Great research--was it worth it?
Product review: The author exhaustively researched this book--talking to hundreds, going through old papers, Berg's notes, etc.--but the reader must question if Berg was really deserving of a 300 hundred page book. Berg was a second-rate catcher, a second-rate scholar, and a second-rate spy who had a brief moment of significance. I must agree with the disgruntled shopkeeper in the prologue: "The only mystery about Moe Berg is that there is no mystery." It's true. Berg created his own legend. He wanted people to think he was important. He led people to believe he was still in the CIA decades after he had been booted out. Did we really need a book on Moe Berg? Probably not.
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