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Title: Ugh! Bad book on interesting topic
Review: This book should be a fifth as long, it is overwritten, overexplained, dense, pedantic. Any substance, the interrogation scenes, or analysis of the situation, are inadequate, and I am left wondering what exactly the US did wrong. Something, I'm sure, but Snepp commits a cardinal sin, writing too much about himself, which really bears little relevance with the topic. I read this book to find out about CIA involvement in SE Asia, and that's what Snepp should have focused on: writing a compelling account of the drama. Every now and then he hits upon it, but much too rarely.
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