This book is about disinformation, the long-run managerial/institutional consequences of near-term choices, and about fear.

Knowing history is necessary for good decisions, but how stories are told shapes our beliefs and views.  If the stories are deceptive, and if enough of them are told, then we risk losing any real understanding of the past, of who we are, of what the world means.

The book is important not only for intelligence analysts, government officials, international business executives, news reporters and scholars, but for everyone who appreciates history and wants a fresh way of learning about places and people.

Putin’s Boys is not about the distant past—it illuminates a fearful and fearsome century.  See how the Soviet police state moves into our present with two decades of Putin’s governance. 

The book is a warning light revealing dangerous weaknesses—suspicion and self-deception.  It calculates in blunt terms the staggering price already paid.