![]() ![]() Hoffman’s vocabulary alone makes it clear he is an observer, not a participant. The book is not an exposé written by an insider with an axe to grind. Hoffman’s neutrality adds value in another way, too. No need to dramatize the story of what really happened is electrifying on its own. Hoffman, is a seasoned reporter who maintains his journalistic objectivity and depends on fact. The author, Pulitzer Prize-winner David E. This was going to be an authentic narrative, not another trivial tale novelized to attract readers.Īnd the content proved true a genuine, thoroughly researched, and scholarly presentation of the reality of spying, backed by 14 pages of photographs and 30 pages of footnotes as readable as the text itself. The spy slang and familiar names made me ready to trust the author. Then came the shock of finding names of people I knew back in the day. ![]() But here it is in The Billion Dollar Spy in spades - being in the black, a dangle, denied area, positive intel, identity transfer. ![]() I’m not used to running into the argot of my years in intelligence, least of all in a commercially available book. ![]()
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