This book is ostensibly about the fall of one of the founders of the Non Aligned Movement, Sukarno of Indonesia. But Greg Poulgrain's work goes much further than that subject. He also shows us two different views of modern American foreign policy. He exemplifies them through the figures of Allen Dulles and John F. Kennedy. His focus is on how these differing views impacted the fate of Sukarno, and how that fate caused one of the most horrifying slaughters of the twentieth century.