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The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower. By Robert Baer. New York: Crown, 2008. 288 pp. $25.95 ($15, paper).
Part geopolitical tour d'horizon, part behind-the-scenes travelogue of a CIA operativeturned-author, The Devil We Know aspires to chronicle Iran's ascent to power. But intelligence fieldwork is one thing, strategic forecasting quite another. Baer, a former CIA case officer and a columnist on intelligence for Time.com, may be a savvy observer of regional trends with much experience in the Middle East, but his views are colored by interactions with...