Fairly crappy book, perfect for wasting a bad weather day at the beach, about an interesting chapter in American spy history. This guy got pretty high up the totem pole at the FBI and gave away a wealth of information to the Soviets. According to this book, he used a lot of justifications to allow himself morally to get started. In the beginning it was all about the money, and he told himself it wasn’t serious information. If I’m to believe this book, he was also rising high simultaneously in his piety in the Catholic Church and Opus Dei, while again morally justifying his failure to follow the practices of his faith by confessing these sins. I’m sure there are better books about this topic, and I fully intend to read them, because I’m interested in how someone can get so high up, and become so arrogant as to think he can avoid detection.