However, the author moves on further and further towards the modern age, and with it she traces an increasing number of mistakes and lapses in judgment which seemed to plague the agency more and more every year. It managed to complete many sensitive operations, chief among them being the prevention of Ronald Reagan‘s assassination in 1981. Kennedy in 1963.įrom there on out, Leonnig takes the time to trace the various reforms the agency was forced to make, and how it managed to radically transform itself into a truly elite espionage unit whose fame around the world wasn’t undeserved. While it does provide some cursory background knowledge about its origins and inception, the story really begins with its catastrophic failure of failing to thwart the assassination of John F. Whereas most espionage books dealing with the real world tend to focus on single remarkable individuals, Carol Leonnig takes a broader approach, exploring and dissecting the American Secret Service and its work. However, as those who have taken the time to explore the work of intelligence services around the globe know it’s a field rife with incompetence and failures, a topic Carol Leonnig explores in the United States in her non-fiction espionage book titled Zero Fail. Thanks in no small part to popular culture and selective declassification of information, we, the public, have largely formed a perception of the American Secret Service as being one of the best in the world. Carol Leonnig Dissects the Secret Service
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