The Hidden Party is an authobiography of Colenel Tsegu Fessehai, his siblings, his generation and the EPLF. He tells the story of the covert party which was instrumental for Iseyas Afeworki to do anything he wanted with impunity within EPLF. This covert party of deactivated when Iseyas became the top man of EPLF in 1987 only to be activated again after Independence  with Valineki meeting of 1993. Colonel Tsegu tries to answer two important question in this book (1) How did Isaias outsmart so many of his EPLF comrades to become a dictator, and (2) How could a nation that overcame Soviet-backed Ethiopian military offensives seem so helpless in the face of one-man rule?