And when she’s not pretending to be a biographer, Jacobsen writes TV scripts for shows like Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan - which explains a lot about this unfortunate book. Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobsen - 9781549180491 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. New York Journal of Books Having already demonstrated her remarkable. Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobsen, 9781549180491, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Men like Waugh are not listeners, they’re just boys with dangerous toys. This is a first rate book on the CIA, its paramilitary armies, operators, and assassins. The Israelis do it so well, so why can’t we follow in the celebrated footsteps of the Mossad?. To this end, she uses Waugh’s career to lionize paramilitary operations and targeted killings. My real problem with this work is the author’s underlying themes. You may ask if Surprise, Kill, Vanish is really that bad. And I hate the fact that the author, and evidently her publisher, thinks all this is okay because, well, it is an exciting story about a real-life Rambo character. I’m annoyed by the sloppy research and the breathless quality of her writing. Nor do I like the author’s pretense that she has written a biography when the hero of her narrative makes only fleeting appearances.

I am uncomfortable with her casual approval of all things macho in the world of paramilitary warfare. I have many problems with this book, beginning with its lurid title.Neither do I like the author’s sycophantic take on the CIA, nor her cavalier accounts of CIA targeted killings. From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIAs secret paramilitary units.

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