Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA [FIRST EDITION]

Fox, Amaryllis

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, New York, 2019

Beschreibung

As new condition black boards with silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; and A Note About the Author. "Gripping. Fox masterfully conveys the exhilaration and loneliness of life undercover, and her memoir reads like a great espionage novle." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review). "Extraordinary. [A] remarkable life. Fox engagingly -- and transparently -- describes her work as an undercover agent for the CIA." -- Kirkus Reviews. "Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her training and deployment in the most elite clandestine operations unit in the CIA, her eight years hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries, and her marriage and the birth of her first daughter, all while working undercover. As the book opens, Amaryllis is alone, navigating the back alleys of Karachi as she prepares to negotiate with terrorists to avoid deployment of a nuclear device. How, the reader wonders, did she come to be here, in a dark room in Pakistan, surrounded by men who could jus as easily kill her as cooperate with her requests? After studying international law and theology as an undergraduate at Oxford, Amaryllis enrolled at Georgetown, where she created an algorithm that predicted the likelihood that a terrorist cell could erupt anywhere in the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. Her first job was analyzing hundreds of classified cables a day and assembling them for inclusion in the president's daily brief. Her next was at the Iraq desk in the Counterterrorism Center, where she worlked to locate prisoners kidnapped by al Qa'ida; a year later she was working to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists, flying all over the world, debriefing detainees, and negotiating with arms dealers to buy chemical and biological weapons on the global black market. After completing the most demanding espionage training on earth, she was deployed as a spy under nonofficial cover to infiltrate terrorist networks in the most remote areas of North Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Life Undercoveer is astonishing, exhilarating, impossible to put down -- an extraordinary record of a life of service and passion and almost unfathomable courage. It is also an intimate, raw, deeply layered memoir about marriage, motherhood, and life's work. A must-read memoir from an immensely gifted new writer." -- from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006756

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA [...

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Carrow, Jenny (jacket design); Stone, Jesse (author photograph)

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Auflage: 1st Edition