by Lawrence E. Walsh
1998, W.W. Nor­ton & Com­pany
ISBN 0393318605
592 pages, illustrated

Pub­lisher Com­ments
With Ronald Reagan’s knowl­edge and sup­port, the United States attempted to trade arms for hostages held by Iran­ian ter­ror­ists; some of the secret money then funded the guer­rilla activ­i­ties of the Nicaraguan Con­tras, a counter-revolutionary group that Con­gress had specif­i­cally for­bid­den the admin­is­tra­tion to sup­port. In this his­toric, first-person account, the inde­pen­dent coun­sel in the Iran-Contra inves­ti­ga­tion exposes the extra­or­di­nary duplic­ity of the high­est offi­cials of the Rea­gan admin­is­tra­tion and the par­a­lyz­ing effects of the cover-up.

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