The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307889750 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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History's bitterest vintage will always be What-Might-Have-Been Nathan Webster This is a difficult book to review because it will encourage reactions that have nothing to do with the book's material at all, but rather how a reader applies this knowledge to the present day. So it's easy to go off on tangents, which I couldn't avoid as I wrote this review. The fact that it did connect so well to the present day is a large part of why it deserves five. Kindle Customer said Sad. I feared up even though I knew Robert Ames died before I read the book. He was human with all the flaws but was a genuinely good man who worked very hard for what he believed in. Unfortunately that cost him his life. Great book, really brings you in and keeps you engaged.. Good read This book should be a movie. It is about a real life hero better than any 007.
Ames’ deepening relationship with Salameh held the potential for a lasting peace. Within a few years, though, both men were killed by assassins, and America’s relations with the Arab world began heading down a path that culminated in 9/11, the War on Terror, and the current fog of mistrust. Bird, who as a child lived in the Beirut Embassy and knew Ames as a neighbor when he was twelve years old, spent years researching The Good Spy. Not only does the book draw on
. KAI BIRD is the coauthor or author of four previous books: American Prometheus, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, The Chairman, and The Color of Truth. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Writing Fellowship
The Good Spy givesnew meaning to the adage that truth can be stranger than fiction.”—Robert Dallek, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller An Unfinished Life: John F. Kai Bird works the seam between history and espionage. He has produced an arresting book—one that is knowing, and masterful in its rendition of a time when the United States cast a huge shadow across the Arab world. Robert Ames, the spy in Kai Bird's title, is a figure of unusual poignancy because his guile and innocence run side by side.”&m