Agents of Innocence
A Novel

”Gaze not too long into the abyss, lest the abyss gaze back at you.” Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche But before there was an abyss in Lebanon there was this: Lebanon’s Liberal past. Will it ever return? Photo circa 1965. Tom Rogers is a CIA agent working out of the Beirut offices in Lebanon in the......more

this is a terrific book ... it's amazing how much David Ignatius knows about all aspects of the intelligence world, the CIA and Mossad, and the Middle East impacting Lebanon in the years he writes about (1960s and 1970s) ... and the way he blends all that into a powerful emotional story......more

Here is the fundamental problem with this book: The author would rather take you through years of Middle East history, especially in Lebanon between 1969 and 1983, while weaving in characters caught up in the events who are neither heroes nor villains. The story is less driven by plot and more drive......more

A piece of paper with a few dots on it. There is no pattern to the dots, they are random on the pristine whiteness of the sheet. Start drawing lines connecting them without a thought as to where they will go. There, that should about do it. All crisscrossed with no idea as to what goes where. This ro......more