"Breaking the Rules" it that rare book which provides a unique insight into some of the events that have shaped our time: the Vietnam War and its aftermath, the ongoing Middle East crisis and China as it evolved from Mao to market economy, all viewed from the perspective of the UN refugee agency and its wacky workings. In 1973 the author meets the then UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan who asks him to becomes his liaison officer to the South Vietnam Liberation Front, the Viet Cong. After the fall of Saigon in 1975 he becomes the UNHCR Representative in Hanoi where...