Paul Baker has modestly described his work as "a homogenous blend of fiction and autobiography", yet there is little fiction in his work but a real-life history book which should be compulsory reading for future generations trying to get the facts behind America's intervention in Vietnam and Cambodia.A Shadowy Passage is a book that blends the passion of experience with the serenity of perspective. It is a fair and most valuable historical assessment of a critical period of US foreign policies towards Southeast Asia. I sincerely hope this salutary book will be widely read. - Ambassador Julio Jeldres, Official Biographer of The King Father Norodom Sihanouk of CambodiaThis book covers activities by US intelligence services during the Vietnam War that lead to the overthrow of Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk in March 1970 through the Cambodian Border Invasion (euphemistically called the Border Incursion) by South Vietnamese and US armed forces in May of 1970.