This reissue of Lt.Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa's book contains a new introduction by the author, an expanded section of photographs, and a transcript of the December 1989 trial that sentenced Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu to death. This renowned expose of the unchecked power of the Ceausescu regime in Romania is an authoritative source on the extensive Bucharest links with the international terrorist network. The author was the head of Romanian intelligence when he defected to the United States in 1978. He was the highest-ranking defector ever from the Eastern bloc and his full-time CIA debriefing lasted for three years. The Romanian people learned the extent of the Ceausescu's corruption when Radio Free Europe began broadcasting excerpts from this book into Romania in 1987. And when the Romanian daily newspaper "Truth" declared itself free after the Ceausescus were toppled, the editors began printing excerpts from this work.