The Reviewer — Martin Petersen is a CIA veteran, Asia expert, and a Cipher Brief Expert. He is the author of City of Lost Souls, A Novel of Shanghai 1932, which will be published November 26th.
Many may have thought that the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was untouchable in Lebanon, and that an unprovoked Israeli attack on Nasrallah in Beirut was too high-risk, politically and otherwise.