BOOK REVIEW: Hidden Scorpion by Warren Reed

Intricate tale of spycraft and danger by a former intelligence officer. Pity Sake Publishing, Australia

Reviewed by Murray Hunter

In the 1980s, with Israel and Egypt in what was called a “cold peace,” the Palestine Liberation Organization at its ill-behaved height, Iraq’s Saddam Hussain in an eight-year war with Iran that took millions of lives and the late Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi a one-man North African wrecking crew, the Australian ambassador to Eg…