Amid the whirlwind of different accounts of the events of the last few years, George Tenet has been noticeably silent.

It's an extraordinarily compelling page turner that also happens to be a major work of literature.

Looking across the landscape, there were supposed to be some literary novels that blew everybody away. But for various reasons, they didn't quite perform.

I think those books do have the same feeling as the big movies. You know you're going to get lost in this world. A shorter book can't quite do that.