The Heart of War

Eye-opening and (from what I’ve heard) accurate insight into what it’s like working for the Pentagon, but would probably only be interesting to someone wanting to work in DC. Ok I also have to add because I cannot stop thinking about it - how crazy is it to create a pride and prejudice love triangle......more

Depressing This is not an especially well written book, but it's a quick read and the writing/plotting is not utterly terrible -- somehow I did finish it (mostly on the Acela corridor hurtling north from our nation's capital, no less) after all. Yet I am not the book's intended audience; this is real......more

I have to just confess right now that originally I thought this was a memoir. I had it in my head that this was a memoir about her time working inside of the Pentago. So I was (and here's the embarrassing part) maybe half way through the book when it dawned on me that something wasn't quite right. T......more

Aaah, the glamour of working in the Pentagon, helping to create policy that saves the world - or is it, destroys it? Told in first person, Heather Reilly, PhD, is an expert on Afghanistan, hired to work on... NOT Afghanistan, because, reorg. Something that apparently happens frequently in this place......more

Started reading this book thinking it was nonfiction as it relatable to my experiences with the Pentagon and fairly accurate to the political world challenges. Halfway through, the book takes a veer more towards fiction which hurts the momentum with predictable plot changes and cliches.......more