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This go around, I would like to recommend Wild Bill Donovan, the spymaster who created

the OSS and Modern American espionage by Douglas Waller.

He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals.

The man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II.

He would become the father of the CIA.

This larger than life character was born poor, but married wealth.

After World War I, Donovan made millions as a lawyer in Wall Street, until FDR tapped

him to be his strategic intelligence chief.

Yet, at times, he was reckless risking his life unnecessarily in war zones and engaging

in extramarital affairs that became fodder for his political enemies.

Wild Bill Donovan reads like an action-packed spy novel.

With stories of daring young men and women and Donovan's OSS sneaking behind enemy lines

for sabotage, breaking into Washington, M.S. East to steal secrets and plotting to topple

Hitler and suffering brutal torture and death when they were captured by the Gestapo.

It's also a tale of political intrigue, of infighting at the highest levels of government

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