Final Blog Assigment: Deep Lie by Stuart Woods

I read Stuart Woods novel, Deep lie, a little while ago. The novel sets itself deep into the espionage world of CIA and KGB. It was published in 1986 to many positive reviews from the critics and readers both. The novel signifies the event that occurred in 1981 when a Soviet submarine went aground in the Swedish waters and there was a standoff between the Swedish authorities and the Russian naval personnel. The story continues with the struggle of Katherine Rule, who being a woman at a higher position in CIA, has to prove her judgments always right. She has very little margin of error. Meanwhile the plot also contains the ups and downs of Helder’s , a soviet naval officer, life after undertaking the most dangerous of all missions.

Since I already have read and seen a lot about the espionage world, this novel was not so difficult to understand. The feeling that I always get is that all is not well in the intelligence world. There are always some moles and traitors that would work against the security interests of the very country that gave them an identity and a homeland. And there should be no surprise that such people exist in the intelligence agencies, especially the major ones. Why is there such a need of a complex system to spy on your ‘enemies’? Well, politics tend to make a way into your daily life even though if you want it or not.

Coming back to the different novels on such issues, I think now is the time that authors should come up with stories that also shows the ill doings of the so called ‘Free World’. It is about time to fictionalize a few of the disastrous steps taken by the various leaders, army general and intelligence chiefs that led to the disasters such as the Iraq War. Enough has been said and written about the communists in the 80’s but what about the superpowers who have a habit of running over every weak country they wish. I

I come from a country that has got the most controversial intelligence agency in the world, ISI. Politicians have always tended to use this weapon more for themselves rather than the security of the country. Same is the case with other countries but these things never come up too much in the media. The political make and break done by the agencies has always been a threat to the democracy and its process. Thus making the very system that runs the country a very corrupt and suspicious one.