“One of the most respected and versatile diplomats of his generation, four-time ambassador Anthony Quainton provides a detailed and colorful account of a career spanning four decades and eleven countries. Quainton offers candid commentary on U.S. policy towards India and Pakistan in the 1970s, the Reagan administration’s covert wars in Latin America in the 1980s, and U.S. counter-drug policies in Peru in the 1990s, as well as the significant changes in the Foreign Service he experienced while serving under eight presidents, from Eisenhower to Clinton.” —JOHN BELLINGER, former legal adviser of the State Department