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Title: a rush job
Review: I heard the author, David Vise, being interviewed on the radio (on the PBS program "Fresh Air") and found him very interesting. Unfortunately, the book is a big disappointment. It's a rush job and a pastiche, without much new information. The chapters on Louis Freeh are a complete waste. They were presumably thrown in to give the book some "structure," but really have nothing to do with the Hanssen case and tell you nothing you wouldn't know from any press digest or encyclopedia yearbook. I am hooked on the Hanssen case, so I guess I would have read the book no mater what, but this book is a dud. It tells you little and is not particularly well written or researched. Plus, there's a lot of padding (e.g., chapter on Freeh).
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