Honour Among Spies by Asad DurraniMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
A badly written, cliched apologia churned out in haste by the former boss of ISI. A cryptic account for Indian readers, it has needless obfuscations and allusions; the nom des plumes are confusing and unwarranted. The author becomes Osama Barakazai, Benazir Bhutto is the Queen, Saddam Hussain is the Mesopotamian Chief and, most intriguing of all, Osama bin Laden mutates into a female. Others: Jabbar Jatt Gen Bajwa; Gulrez Shahrukh Gen Musharraf; Sharma Vajpayee; K I Gujjar Manmohan Singh. ISI Headquarters is the Lair; Khurshid Kadri Imran Khan and so on. The tribal machinations of the Pak Army are incomprehensible. The end is puzzling. The book needed a good editor, littered as it is with typos – altar becomes alter.
Reality masquerading as fiction loses its sting.
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