Christopher Hitchens despises Henry Kissinger. In this book he vehemently lays out a studied hypothetical legal take-down of the most controversial of controversial American government actors. Its hard to argue with much of the evidence that Hitchens has collected here. It portrays a man who perpetually posed an insidious threat to small, left-leaning democracies the world over and those who support him. Hitchens is willing to parse every noted word the former secretary has spoken to make his case, for better or worse. There is hope that someday a man willing to lend the helping American hand, whether it be money, arms, or noted ambivalence, to some of the most despotic regimes of this century, will somehow meet some form of justice. The preface in the paperback edition notes some of the troubles Kissinger has run into with courts the world over, which the author has little umbrage with taken some credit for—and is likely due. If nothing else, the book has made foreign travel more difficult for Mr. Kissinger as he must now consult his very expensive lawyers each time he enters a country to avoid a potential subpoena or indictment.