This is a book for fans of spycraft novels – what spies are really thinking and planning their moves. Because the author doesn’t reveal all the details of his encounters as a spy (like what was the other person asked to retrieve or how did he know the other person was lying), there were stories that ended unsatisfactorily. Also, I don’t care for the author’s “herky-jerky” writing style (a term he himself used). The story at the beginning was broken up into 3-4 parts and interspersed among other stories in the book.