The Unending Game [Hardcover] Vikram Sood

It started tepidly but then I continued. I had hopes. But eventually it ended up feeling like I had just read too many snippets of Wikipedia articles and popular podcast transcripts. No, I wasn't expecting escapades or sexcapade of James Bond books or the cold blooded classic lingering espionage of Le Carré and his kind, the two sets of literature the author references quite a bit in this work of his, but the least I was looking for some unique or original insights, something to take away from, some coherence, some deep dive, especially since it was written by an ex-chief of one of the premier most espionage shops in the modern world. That wasn't there. It was always tough and go. Topics were picked and then abandoned in no time. It seems the effort is, in this book, to cover too much in too little time and space. In fact the hope of all that is what kept me at this book. It could be some sort of crash course on modern espionage, or so; uninteresting as well, I am afraid.