THE NICE Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait from the remarkable existence and death of one of the very most important operatives in CIA history – a guy who, had he lived, may have helped heal the rift between Arabs as well as the Western.

On Apr 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, eliminating 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning stage. It marked the start of Hezbollah being a political force, but a lot more important, it about THE NICE Spy: THE LIFE SPAN and Loss of life of Robert Ames removed America’s most influential and effective cleverness officer in the Middle East – CIA operative Robert Ames. What arranged Ames aside from his peers was his incredible ability to form deep, meaningful connections with key Arab intelligence figures. Some operatives relied on dangers and subterfuge, but Ames worked by building friendships and emphasizing shared values – hardly ever even more notably than with Yasir Arafat’s charismatic intelligence main and heir obvious Ali Hassan Salameh (aka “The Red Prince”). Ames’ deepening romantic relationship with Salameh held the prospect of a lasting peacefulness. Within a few years, though, both males were killed by assassins, and America’s relations with the Arab globe began going down a path that culminated in 9/11, the Battle on Terror, and the existing fog of mistrust.

Bird, who seeing that a child lived in the Beirut Embassy and knew Ames like a neighbor when he was twelve years of age, spent years researching The Good Spy. Not only does the book attract on hours of interviews with Ames’ widow, and quotes from a huge selection of Ames’ personal words, it’s woven from interviews with scores of current and former American, Israeli, and Palestinian intelligence officers as well as other players in the centre East “Great Video game.”

What emerges is a masterpiece-level narrative from the making of a CIA official, a uniquely insightful background of twentieth-century conflict in the centre East, and an absorbing hour-by-hour account from the Beirut Embassy bombing. Even more impressive, Bird draws on his reporter’s skills to deliver a complete dossier on the bombers and expose the shocking truth of where in fact the attack’s mastermind resides today.