Sanity Check

"I need a sanity check," said the President of the United States.
"What?" I said.
"The clowns in the Intelligence Community are so damned politicized that I have no idea whether what I’m getting is useful, actionable intelligence or
political flapdoodle. So I need you to give it a sanity check."

So begins math teacher and ex Naval Officer Alan Llewellyn's danger-fraught trek into the murky wilds of the U. S. Intelligence Community and the even more toxic forest of the Chinese Ministry of State...