PositiveThe Wall Street Journal... a lucid and sobering account ... The U.S. intelligence community, outlined concisely by Ms. Zegart, is composed of 18 separate organizations ... Ms. Zegart catalogs the difficulties of coordinating these disparate organizations, each with its own culture and skill set and priorities ... Ms. Zegart is at her best when describing cyber threats ... Ms. Zegart offers no easy solutions but warns that the world of cyberwarfare requires both a \'paradigm shift\' and \'mobilization in milliseconds.\'
Ben Macintyre
PositiveThe Wall Street Journal... a lively account of Kuczynski’s remarkable career ... Inevitably, as the reader should keep in mind, much of Kuczynski’s life is filtered through her autobiography, which was written in East Germany under the scrutiny of censors by a woman whose survival depended on lying about many of her activities ... temperate judgments add value to Agent Sonya, a fascinating portrait of a Soviet spy who never recanted her belief in communism, even as the system for which she had risked her life disintegrated.
