In
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat, Bob Woodward lays down the Watergate history and then spends the rest of the book detailing his struggle with revealing the identity of Deep Throat, the source that helped him and Carl Bernstein understand and unveil the scandal. If you're unfamiliar with the subject, this would make a nice companion read to A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being "Deep Throat," and the Struggle for Honor in Washington. Both books share much of the same information, but
A G-Man's Life goes deeper into Deep Throat's personal background. Both are about as informative as you'll get on the motives of Woodward and Deep Throat in this high-stakes secretive chess game.
