This was an entertaining read, and an interesting take on a period of world history that I confess to not know too much about- but it seems our current state of foreign affairs is quite tied to some of these goings on. Hanif uses his creative license well to illustrate and satirize the Cold War machinations and their effects. That said, I think that Hanif could have gone even farther in his interpretation, and there were some plot points that I would have like him to have wrapped up before ending his story.