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Great information, mediocre writing. First, and foremost, I must say that the information provided in this book is extremely important, and it is spectacular that it got published, and that it received so much attention. That said; the writing is rather poor. It has the feeling of having been unedited, written in one pass and sent for publishing as quickly as possible. There are many repetitions of ideas which were entirely unnecessary, and insertion of personal anecdotes that are only vaguely connected to the story. Often Perkins spills into talking about his feelings of guilt and hesitance toward his actions, and pointedly trying to show he was allowed no choice in these matters. Overall the story has the taste of an apologia, talking about how he was taken advantage of, citing personal weaknesses [shyness, difficulty with women, being economically well-off, but feeling downtrodden in the face of those who were better off, etc. etc.], and this all becomes rather tedious after a while. There are chunks of good info as to the operating procedures of the powers that be, but even so, he writes so poorly, that you are required to decipher them for yourself, by seeing the pattern in his repetitious stories. Not to mention, very little of the information in the text is material that did not make the news over the last 35 years. For those of you who wish to know the jist of the book without having to wade through the personal sob story, here is my little outline of how Perkins implies the powers that be attempt to control the world: 1) If anyone has anything you want, get them indebted to you. In the international scheme do this by: a) Getting economist teams to project huge changes approaching in the next few years,then b) Use this to force the government to give large contracts to engineering firms to modernize the country, after taking loans from the government to do so. c) Now that the growth is nowhere near what your economists projected, the counrty is indebted to you for work you already did, and it can never repay it. Ta-Da, now they are in your pocket, and have to vote your way, and give you all the licences for oil drilling, and lumber harvesting etc. 2) If that doesn't work, engineer a coup d'etat, and install your own puppet dictator who will do everything in your best interest (see above). 3) If that doesn't work, denounce the leader as an enemy of the world, maufacture consent of your citizens, and invade. That's all. Nothing we haven't seen before.