How a Dictator Is Built and Broken: The Right Hand Man by Cillian Dunne

Join author Cillian Dunne and comedian Alec Flynn at Village Well Books & Coffee for an inside look at the rise and downfall of dictator Manuel Noriega. Cillian shares his investigation in Panama, including the months he spent living with the dictator’s right-hand man and uncovering never-before-seen documents, once owned by the dictator.

About the author:

Cillian Dunne is an Irish-American author focused on crime, intelligence, and political power. For The Right Hand Man, he lived in Panama with Noriega’s right-hand man and interviewed Noriega’s family, former intelligence officers, and CIA contacts, documenting hidden Cold War history with firsthand testimony and original files, once owned by the dictator himself.

About the book:

As the Cold War turns Central America into a battlefield of spies and sabotage, a Panamanian soldier trained by Mossad, the DEA, and Castro’s Cuba becomes the right-hand man to dictator Manuel Noriega and must survive the covert war launched by the very intelligence networks that created him.