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CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR

The Extraordinary Story of the

Largest Covert Operation in History

By George Crile

Atlantic Monthly. 528 pp. $26

The stories George Crile tells in Charlie Wilson's War must be true -- nobody could make them up. This is a rousing tale of jihad on the frontiers of the Cold War, infighting at the CIA and horse- trading in Congress, spiced by sex, booze, ambition and larger-than- life personalities. It would make a great movie; whether it adds up to a good book is another matter. The events are dramatic, and the characters are colorful, but there are wide gaps in the ...

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