It has been said that once an era ends, it becomes ripe for reassessment. It is thus with more than a pinch of curiosity that The Outside Insider captures perfectly the tensions of the Middle East as Adam innocently enters the obscure world of espionage and becomes a member of a renown elite that has a date with reality.
There are successes in Adam's intelligence community which were rarely noted but have changed the course of history. Then there are the failures. Those failures have also changed the course of history, whether failures of espionage or failures of analysis. Had administrations heeded intelligence reports Hezbollah might not exist today, the World Trade Center might still stand and the Iraq War might never have happened – combinations that many in the non fiction world look back on with regret.
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