"In May 1981 a Turkish Mafioso, Mehmet Ali Aga, attempted but failed to kill the Pope in St Peter's Square. western intelligence has been trying to discover who was behind the attack ever since. West has conducted the most painstaking and detailed investigation of this mystery to date... Chapters on the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the eventual victory of  Solidarity, which sparked off the disintegration of European Communism,read like an entertaining adventure novel." 

Oleg Grodievsky in The Literary Review

Surrounded by Mujahadeen guerrillas, Milton Beardon was feted in Afghanistan as the person responsible for masterminding the CIA's largest covert war, and for introducing the Stinger anti-aircraft missile which dramatically altered the course of the war.