Perilous Options does a nice job of dissecting significant case studies of US covert operations and drawing broad conclusions about the management of covert ops in general; the reader gets the nitty-gritty on the case study incident and broad ideas about covert ops management. The study of the failed rescue mission for the Teheran hostages in 1980 is excellent, and the study of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 is also good. Also contains studies on missions involving Song Tay and the Mayaguez. Well-written and documented; a great source.