Books by Dinno Buzzati
“This book is all about Italians stationed on a remote Eurasian frontier. Of course they never were, but The Tartar Steppe is a metaphor for devoting your life to a higher good, for wanting to do public service and to make a difference. And you essentially give up everything. The main character, Giovanni Drogo, gives up his fiancée, his mother and his friends to wait for the Tartars who never come. There is this horrible fort where he lives, this daily grind and no sense of normal life. His life is wasted.” Read more...
Robert Baer, Intelligence Agents & Analyst
Interviews where books by Dinno Buzzati were recommended
The best books on Espionage, recommended by Robert Baer
Spying is ultimately very dull and you run into the same kind of mediocrity that you encounter anywhere else in life, says former CIA operative Robert Baer. Nor do governments always listen. He recommends books on espionage—both fiction and nonfiction—that give a sense of what it’s all about.
