Bill Gertz is undoubtedly one of the best investigative journalists in the world. He has quality sources of information from intelligence agencies and government circles, knows how to contextualize the data he obtains, and can write such an excellent report or analysis that it can be referenced for years after the newspaper has long yellowed. Moreover, he can write a book in an engaging manner. The factual novel Betrayal is a unique confession about the behind-the-scenes of American and foreign policy and the international arms trade. And although it deals with a relatively complex and heavy topic, Bill Gertz managed to write it in a lively and simple way that is understandable even for laypeople. If you are thinking that you have never heard of Gertz because you only know American journalists like Woodward and Bernstein from the Watergate scandal, I must correct you. At least once, you might have heard of Gertz. It was in 1997, and it was a scandal that became a trigger on the Czech political scene...
