The book details Boinett's transformative role as the first Director General of Kenya's National Intelligence Service (NIS) from 1999. Wilson Boinett, a former military intelligence officer who joined the Kenya Army in the 1970s and rose to the rank of Brigadier, is credited with professionalizing Kenya's intelligence service. His memoir chronicles the transition from the colonial-era Special Branch, established in 1952 to counter the Mau Mau uprising, to the modern national security agency, created through the National Security Intelligence Service Act of 1998.