Bill Donovan was born in New York in 1883. He served during World War I and World War II. His World War II service was very interesting to me, as I specialized in that for my war history major. Donovan met with many key people during the war years, and made no secret about what his opinions of the Axis powers were. He became involved with the OSS, and did all manner of spy-style things. His efforts for the Nuremberg trials were exceptional, and I really wish I would have known more about this before know. He also helped form the CIA and was an Ambassador to Thailand. He really did have an interesting life.

I, unfortunately, did not enjoy this book nearly as much as I had hoped. I got it for a dollar at the used book store, so, for the money, it was worth reading. The author did his research, and he did provide a decent amount of information about Wild Bill Donovan and the OSS. The issue that I had was that the tone of the book was just stale, there seemed to be an unnecessary amount of information and documents about the OSS that were not really needed that made it seem like page filler as opposed to important information, and it seemed like the author didn't quite have a grasp on the personality of his subject enough to integrate that into the writing. There were some really interesting parts, but as a whole, I do not think I would recommend this book.