Robert Baer

Prolope: The floomsdaj ScenarioThe white Ford pickup rolled quietly to a stop below Tower Number Seven, one of ten large cylindrical structures at Abqaiq that are used to remove sulfur from petroleum, or turn it firom "sour" to "sweet," in oil-patch jargon. A dirty tarp covered the cargo bed;...

Gerince megtört, ragasztása sérült, a könyvtest kettévált. This is the riveting, illuminating, at times disturbing memoir of Baer's years in the CIA's Directorate of Operations, almost all of them spent in the back alleys of the Middle East.

bob baer is not alone. Yes, his riveting account of life in the post-cold war CIA is devastating—yet another body blow to the reputation of an intelligence agency that failed to protect America when it needed to be protected. But Baer's account of cowardly bureaucrats and indifferent officials...