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The Unending Game by Vikram Sood: The shadowy world of espionage
The Unending Game by former R AW chief Vikram Sood is a low-profile but solid contribution to the study of intelligence as a tool for formulating security policy in India and elsewhere.
by Vappala Balachandran
Aug 31, 2018
2 minutes
Writers on intelligence face two problems. First, intelligence is a low-profile job where there is no place for dabanggs. Stella Rimington, MI5's first woman chief, had famously said that "the best and most successful spies are the quiet, apparently boring and dull people". But readers expect them to reflect Ian Fleming's 'Bond' stories. Second, even retired intelligence officers
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