[A] ground-breaking new history of the Vatican-German Resistance.... Writing with the craft of a novelist and the conscience of a meticulous scholar, Riebling has produced a masterly account. -National Review
Prophetic when first published, even more relevant now, Wedge is the classic, definitive story of the secret war America has waged against itself. Based on scores of interviews with former spies and thousands of declassified documents, Wedge reveals and re-creates -- battle by battle, bungle by bungle -- the epic clash that has made America uniquely vulnerable to its enemies. For more than six decades, the opposed and overlapping missions of the FBI and CIA -- and the rival personalities of cops and spies -- have caused fistfights and turf tangles, breakdowns and cover-ups, public scandals and tragic deaths. A grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, Wedge is both a journey and a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, and the plots to kill Castro through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery, and the hunt for Al Qaeda -- Wedge shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement and intelligence. Gripping and authoritative -- and updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action through to September 11, 2001 -- Wedge is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage.
Drawing on recently declassified documents, a provocative look at the intense and bitter rivalry between the FBI and CIA examines the history of the conflict and assesses its damaging impact on American counterintelligence. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
'Die Spione des Papstes' liest sich wie ein spannender Spionage-Thriller. Mark Riebling hat ein absolut beeindruckendes Werk verfasst!, denglers- buchkritik.de, 01.08.2017
Niezwykły dokument historyczny i doskonała powieść szpiegowska w jednym!Ta książka zmienia spojrzenie na II wojnę światową i współczesną historię Kościoła katolickiego.Milczenie Watykanu wobec okrucieństw nazizmu pozostaje jedną z największych kontrowersji naszych czasów. Historycy oskarżali Piusa XII o współudział w Holokauście, nazywając go „papieżem Hitlera”.Jednak kluczowa część tej historii pozostawała do dziś niedopowiedziana. Ujawnia ją na kartach swojej, na poły historycznej, na poły sensacyjnej książki, amerykański historyk, eseista i analityk polityczny — Mark Riebling.