The memoir of a young US woman who gained an insider view of some of the most vilified and secretive world leaders of modern history. In the age of Trumpism, Eva Golinger's story is a personal, revealing view of the rise and fall of a strongman who promised to buck the system in favour of the masses and ended up setting the stage for the demise of democracy. She would come to know and even befriend some of these men, who so many in the world saw as tyrants. She saw them unveiled and had privileged access to Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, Bashar al Assad, Muammar Gaddafi, Julian Assange and others.