Early in the spring, when I finished Rita Bullwinkel's brilliant debut novel, "Headshot," I already knew it was going to be my favorite book of the year. I'd read and loved Bullwinkel's short ...
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.