http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/thereview.cfm?id=840672002 "...Freeh turns out to be more Clark Kent than Superman. The FBI pursues Wen Lo Hee for a genuinely substantial piece of espionage - selling missile technology to the Chinese. The only problem is, he's innocent. Then it turns out the FBI has messed up the Oklahoma investigation, Freeh falls out with Bill Clinton, the Khobar Towers investigation falls prey to Saudi government intransigence and the Senate launches an investigation into what by this time is being dubbed the 'Fumbling Bunch of Idiots'. The FBI boss does catch Hanssen, but as the latter has been spying since 1980 no-one is terribly impressed. Freeh steps down early, his career, a bit like the Soviet Union, fizzling out unlamented. Vise sets out to shock us with a tale of human evil, yet Hanssen comes over as merely a bit sad. What Vise does succeed in doing is shedding some light on an intelligence establishment which has been malfunctioning for decades."
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Matthew X