Comparing The Dark Game By Paul Janeczko And The Code Book By Simon Singh

Though The Dark Game by Paul Janeczko and The Code Book by Simon Singh both examine aspects of the history of espionage, the organization, tone, and style are quite different.

The Dark Game by Paul Janeczko is a non-fiction novel about espionage and intelligence in the history of The United States. This book is very informative and the author has a style that really makes you captivated to the information. The author really strives to tell the truth which can be hard to come by in the murky and dangerous game of espionage. Some of the stories he tells are especially captivating because they are recent and the ideas of spy's in our nation even today can be unsettling, for example there was one who was only caught in 2001. This book to me is especially interesting in the midst of the NSA snooping scandal because this book will show that there have been government organizations watching regular people since the revolutionary war. Overall the history of espionage and the spy game is interesting and will never be over.

This books stories touch on a few like deception and betrayal but also determination. Some of the stories capture the determination to spy again like Virginia Hall who fled over mountains with a peg leg, also the determination to not get caught like any spy, but also the determination to die for their cause. The last part to touch on is whether I would recommend this book, and I would because not only is it well written but I feel this topic and the book itself will be interesting to any reader of any