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A "candid, behind-the-scenes" (The Dallas Morning News) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who - in his career of service to the country - was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy.Christopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He participated in one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic and traveled to Bosnia and Kosovo, and to the Dayton conference, where a truce was arrived at. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, in the cold war; chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton's hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq. Outpost is Hill's "lively, entertaining ... introduction to the difficult game of diplomacy" (The Washington Post) - an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options.