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Frank Cabot is next in line for the CIA directorship. He already holds the post of acting director, and the president and committee chairman both want him for the job. And with his clean record, all that stands between him and the corner office are the right answers to the right questions--a routine confirmation hearing.
Until the pissing starts. As questions are raised and answers are vetted, Brad Cameron, Cabot's handpicked assistant, finds a missing name, a missing man, and missing records for each, any one of which could put an end to Cabot's confirmation, his career, his reputation, and the careers and reputations of half of official Washington, living and dead.
They laid out everything they knew: the 1978 memos about Golenpolsky and his report of an American in the Gulag, the details added by Terry Tyler, protection of the Golenpolsky file in Akmolinsk records, a flag to the Ames case, and finally Warren DeForest's explanation of what Ames had to do with it.DeForest had visibly suffered before spilling the beans. Who was Brad? What was he doing here? Working for Cabot? Oh, my God. That created a bit of a--well...
"Look, Myrna, this is going to be a real mess. I think we should save our talk till morning. Will you trust me on this?"
As Brad and his partner--the wonderful septuagenarian Myrna Rashevsky, who deserves a book of her own--defy the spooks, make nice with the Mossad, pull the beards of cold war lions, and schmooze with the likes of Aldrich Ames, Cabot and his supporters are plagued from within and without by investigative reporters, crazed militiamen, alcoholic wives, and indiscreet nieces.
While The Confirmation would benefit from a slightly quicker tempo and a greater sense of urgency (particularly down the homestretch), it remains a sharply plotted work with strong characterization and dialogue that rings true. And how many up-tempo works wouldn't be the better for that? --Michael Hudson
"Tom Powers knows Washington and he knows the CIA. The result is a non-stop, terrific read. The Confirmation is a winner."
-- David Wise, author of Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas
"Tom Powers's The Man Who Kept the Secrets was the best book ever written about the CIA. In The Confirmation, Powers takes his true understanding of the spook world and Washington and spins a really gripping yarn."
-- Evan Thomas
"This is a quintessential Washington novel about the fine line between good and bad, moral and immoral, truth and lie, that keeps all of us who care on the edge. Tom Powers knows more about that edge than any other journalist around, and his insight enriches and invigorates The Confirmation."
-- Seymour Hersh
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