Psr just Diplomatic Correspondent and jerusalem correspondent. From 1995 to 2001 he served as Moscow Bureau chief and later as Foreign Editor and assisting manager editor for the foreign news. Please join me in welcoming david e. Hoffman to the Louisville Free public library. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you all for coming here tonight. Its a weeknight and i know a lot of you probably have other things to do and its really exciting for an author to come to louisville and see so many people interested. A book takes years and years to write and im going to give you the best of it in 35 minutes and answer your questions. I would like to thank the Louisville Free public library. I would like to thank lisa. I would like to thank Library Foundation for making this talk possible and i hope that after i had spoken for a little while that youll have some questions because i can possibly get everything i wrote in this book into 35 minutes. The book is about spying. A cia man wrote a gener