Verax reminded me a little bit of some of the Le Carre George Smiley novels I've read in that it's exciting in a boring way, and is very topical. The tradecraft used by Laura Poitras and others to dodge surveillance by national security types also reminded me of Le Carre. Verax shows how thoroughly rotten and useless the national security establishment is, and how far we must go to have a country based on justice.