In The Perfect Kill, Robert B. Baer intertwines his own history and experiences with the "Laws" for Assassins. Unfortunately, I found that the story fell flat in many places, probably because of the way that it was told. While it's interesting to read about Baer's career, the storyline jumps to diff...
What a great look behind the curtain of what the CIA has become. For years, the CIA was respected as an intelligence organization, but the transformation that Robert Baer presents of how it was emasculated by politicos and career analysts gives me a deeper understanding on why the CIA has not been a...
Baer argues for recognizing Hezbollah and a reapprochement with Iran, inevitably including a downgrading of relations with Israel. I'm not sure how realistic this is; a country's foreign relations are not a Risk-game of picking and choosing partners, they reflect economic and social relationships. T...
former CIA Middle East operative (inspiration for the movie SYRIANA) Robert Baer's NYTimes bestseller SEE NO EVIL reads quickly and well, containing that oft-noticeable hallmark of a good non-fiction account--the writer notes that he was forced to train his writing or felt compelled to write from a ...
During the time I read this, my mental image of how many stars I'd give it began at four as our writer relates his unusual induction into the CIA, and his early exciting years in India, then impossibly bogged down somewhere after Beruit, a star sadly limped off, legs broken at the sheer weight it's ...
4/12/11 ** Well, since I haven't picked this up in at least 6 weeks, I think that it's time for me to formally acknowledge that I'm dropping it. I wish that GoodReads had a formal category for this. I didn't want to mark it as 'read' since I didn't finish it!I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but ...
Nearly everything the average American has been told about Iran is wrong.This is a compelling analysis of one of the major players on the world stage. For those who have read much about the Middle East there is not a whole lot of new information here, but Baer has the ability to gather the strings o...
Baer may have a story to tell that is non-fiction, but the CIA will not clear the things he has to say. So he decided to sidestep the secrecy requirement and present his tale as fiction. It is all done with a nod and a wink. So take what he proffers as fiction as gospel. This is a very slickly writt...
This was an eye-opening book. The main thing I got from it is that the CIA of today isn't the CIA of 25 years ago. Much more emphasis is placed on internal politics, satellite photos and CYA than on on-the-ground intelligence gathering and that it's going to keep costing us lives and liberties until...
A frightening look at just how dirty politics in Washington actually are and how fragile the economic success and security of the U.S. really is. His analysis that it would take no more than a handful of committed terrorists destroying one refiner in Saudi Arabia to bring economic ruin on the world...
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