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From the bestselling author of the assault on intelligence an unprecedented high level master narrative of americas intelligence wars demonstrating in a time of new threats that espionage and the search for facts are essential to our democracy for general michael hayden playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats.