You know the world is a funny place, if this guy would have not joined up to help the CIA he would have been in a small prison cell facing a war crimes trial. The book covers the World War 2 German General that was in charge of the Nazi's version of the CIA / OSS. He then "converted" to the allied way of thinking once Hitler was dead and the U.S. and new German government gave him the job of head of the German version of the CIA so he could continue battling the communists. Along the way he also got jobs for all the spies he used to have that were not executed by the Allies during the war.

The book does detail out some of the successes of the World War Two counter intelligence and intelligence gathering operations and the creation of the new German organization. It goes into some detail of the "battles" between the East German intelligence and the West German group, some of which is interesting. We also get some interesting stories about people escaping from East Germany. The down side to the book is that it is dry. You can tell the book was translated because there is a distinct lack of wit or pep. I think the reader of this book really have to be interested in German Cold War intelligence gathering stories, the general read would not get past page 100.