This book was a good idea that fell far short of the mark. Simply put -- as you read on an on "Special Duty" becomes totally boring. So many acronyms, so many Japanese names and so many Japanese agencies with their names in Japanese also provided. In short, the interesting stories got buried. Skip this book unless you want to read a micro-history of Japanese intelligence efforts.

This book was pretty difficult for me to read, mostly because the history of Japan I am not familiar with, anyway through the development of its secret services, now I have learned a lot but I would not recommend this book to many people.

Questo é stato un libro particolarmente difficile da leggere, soprattutto perché in generale, e anche nel particolare, la storia del Giappone mi é abbastanza ignota. Comunque, attraverso questo excursus che racconta lo sviluppo dei servizi segreti, ne ho imparata un pochino, ciò non toglie che non consiglierei questo libro a molti.

THANKS NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!

** Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with the digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review **
Muy interesante. En este libro el autor repasa la historia de la inteligencia japonesa, que ya desde la premisa, me resultaba sumamente interesante. Esperaba que el libro fuera interesante, pero no tenia una expectativa definida, pero la verdad es que el análisis que el autor realiza en esta obra es muy incisivo y completo.