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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imrpint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiii, 686 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Describes how the longest-serving director of the CIA befriended the wealthy elite, targeted foreign leaders for assassination, and manipulated American presidents to further his own agenda, and offers new evidence of his involvement in the assassination of JFK.
Author
Publisher
Time Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into foreign adventures that decisively shaped today's world as the Cold War was at its peak.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The man who led the intelligence war that killed Osama bin Laden traces a life of leadership in public service, from his tenure in Congress through his years as director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xiii, 304 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Growing up, Scott C. Johnson always suspected that his father was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, one of the CIA's most trusted officers. At first the secret was thrilling. But over time Scott began to have doubts. How could a man so rigorously trained to deceive and manipulate simply turn off those skills at home? His father had been living a double life for so long that his lies were hard to separate...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
301 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"On September 11, 2001, Doug Laux was a freshman in college, on the path to becoming a doctor. But with the fall of the Twin Towers came a turning point in his life. After graduating he joined the Central Intelligence Agency, determined to get himself to Afghanistan and into the center of the action.
10) Life undercover
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Amaryllis Fox was an undergraduate at Oxford when her mentor Daniel Pearl was beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, Fox created an algorithm that predicted terrorist cells arising in any village around the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. In this memoir, Fox tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting terrorists in sixteen countries.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
768 pages cm
Description
"In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908? 1987), the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene?s The Quiet American, best-selling historian Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a "hearts and mind" diplomacy, first in the Philippines, then in Vietnam. It was a visionary policy that, as Boot reveals, was ultimately crushed by America?s giant military bureaucracy, steered by elitist generals and blueblood diplomats who favored...
12) Fair game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the autobiography of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose covert identity was exposed when her husband, retired Ambassador Joe Wilson, wrote a newspaper article challenging the basis for the claim that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Author
Formats
Description
"A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
272 pages cm
Description
"A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in...
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Formats
Description
"Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan's alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would be routine. That day marked his first and only security briefing with President-elect Donald Trump. And it was also the day John Brennan said his final farewell to Owen Brennan, his father, the man who had taught him the lessons of goodness, integrity, and honor that had shaped the course of an unparalleled...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
"At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing - seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear - to some - that the Soviet Union was already executing a planto expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government's strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly-formed CIA. THE QUIET AMERICANS chronicles the exploits of...
Author
Formats
Description
"A real-life thriller about a CIA contractor who vanished in Iran and the international manhunt to find him"--
"In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States. Barry Meier, an award-winning...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A master class in spycraft from one of its greatest practitioners. Jack Devine is one of the legendary spymasters of our time. He was in Chile when Allende fell; he ran Charlie Wilson's war in Afghanistan; he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it; he caught Pablo Escobar in Colombia; he tried to warn George Tenet that there was a bullet coming from Iraq with his name on it. Devine served America's interests...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"As the first agent to publicly betray the CIA, Philip Agee was on the run for over forty years--a pariah akin to Edward Snowden. Agee revealed in spectacular detail what many had feared about the CIA's actions, but he also outed and endangered hundreds of agents. Agee relentlessly opposed the CIA and the regimes it backed, whether in America or around the world. In Jonathan Stevenson's words, Agee became 'one of history's successful viruses: undeniably...
20) Undaunted
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than thirty years in government.
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