van hahn wrote an autobiography working on it during the war and what made it really interesting is it turned out mary helped him write it. the fact she did so was one of dulles' schemes. he wanted to learn as much as we could so working with mary he asked her to help him translate the book and work on bits and pieces of it. he produced a very, it wasn't an entirely accurate in places, but an account of what it was like to work with dulles. at this point, there is good characters, good story, it is a good time. i just have to figure out what the narrative thread is. what is the plot to this book. there were lots of great antidotes and spy stories but i felt like they didn't link. i tried to look at dulles' antipathy toward the soviets. the united states was an ally of the soviet union at this time but dulles didn't buy it and spent a lot of the war warning the united states that the soviets were not to be trusted and they were aiming to dominate europe after the wrote. i wrote the book along those lines and showed it to my editor who thought that is a good idea but maybe there is a bet