About the Author

Henry Butterfield Ryan is a retired United States Foreign Service officer.

Reviews

Henry Butterfield Ryan is both a historian and a former United States Foreign Services Officer, and his book combines sound traditional scholarship with readability and a sense of identification and drama. Drawing on a wide range of conventional scholarly sources and recently declassified documents, he focuses on the US government's response to Che Guevara during his insurgency in Bolivia in 1966-7. Indeed, his insights into the role of the US in Guevara's capture represent the book's main value ... Butterfield Ryan's comprehensive study firmly puts paid both to the idea that the CIA was Guevara's main opponent and to the myth that it was responsible for his death. Philip Swanson, TLS