THE LUMUMBA PLOT: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA AND A COLD WAR ASSASSINATION

THE LUMUMBA PLOT: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA AND A COLD WAR ASSASSINATIONThe New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thrillerabout the U. S. sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Economist, Financial Times This is one of the best books I have read in years . . . gripping, full of colorful characters, and strange plot twists. Fareed Zakaria, CNN host It was

asking them if they are willing to fight for their country

do not dry clean

with powerful echoes of our Trump-era political scandals

The long list of operations and activities of the Abwehr around the world includes the efforts of an agent in the USA who was arrested after a bizarre attempt to obtain a quantity of blank American passports by impersonating a senior State Department official

and the patriots who are on the front lines today

more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II

one by one

Morten Storm was an unlikely Jihadi

but in the end human agency proves surprisingly decisive

It is the story of ordinary people fighting not just for their homes and their families but for justice and democracy itself

Enthralling and eye-opening

due to bad press and the government's unwillingness to heartily defend Powers