1 Spymaster is a rich, but very complex book, difficult to read in places, but rewarding for the reader willing to struggle through the difficult parts.

2 The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in the World War II and later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information.

3 Dai Li was Chiang Kai-shek's spymaster during World War II, "the claws and teeth" of the Chinese Nationalist leader and the "Chinese Himmler" to the British.

4 The former spymaster on Citi's board and the theatrical impresario on Lehman's may have been happy to ask questions, but were they the right ones?

5 The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in World War II and later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information.

6 The broadest honey trap in intelligence history was probably the creation of the notorious East German spymaster, Markus Wolf.

7 Take, for example, the life and times of the legendary Elizabethan spymaster of England, Sir Francis Walsingham.

8 Over a dinner in Dai Li's residence, Donovan told the spymaster that OSS would work unilaterally inside China.