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My Secret Life In The Cia's War On Terror
Bantam
March 2010
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Featuring: John Kiriakou
224 pages
ISBN: 0553807374
EAN: 9780553807370
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Long before the waterboarding controversy exploded in the
media, one CIA agent had already gone public. In a
groundbreaking 2007 interview with ABC News, John Kiriakou
called waterboarding torture—but admitted that it probably
worked. This book, at once a confessional, an adventure
story, and a chronicle of Kiriakou’s life in the CIA, stands
as an important, eloquent piece of testimony from a
committed American patriot. In February 2002 Kiriakou was the head of counterterrorism
in Pakistan. Under his command, in a spectacular raid
coordinated with Pakistani agents and the CIA’s best
intelligence analyst, Kiriakou’s field officers took down
the infamous terrorist Abu Zubaydah. For days, Kiriakou
became the wounded terrorist’s personal “bodyguard.” In
circumstances stranger than fiction, as al-Qaeda agents
scoured the streets for their captured leader, the best
trauma surgeon in America was flown to Pakistan to make sure
that Zubaydah did not die. In The Reluctant Spy, Kiriakou
takes us into the fight against an enemy fueled by
fanaticism. He chillingly describes what it was like inside
the CIA headquarters on the morning of 9/11, the agency
leaders who stepped up and those who protected their
careers. And in what may be the book’s most shocking
revelation, he describes how the White House made plans to
invade Iraq a full year before the CIA knew about it—or
could attempt to stop it. Chronicling both mind-boggling mistakes and heroic acts of
individual courage, The Reluctant Spy is essential reading
for anyone who wishes to understand the inner workings of
the U.S. intelligence apparatus, the truth behind the
torture debate, and the incredible dedication of ordinary
men and women doing one of the most extraordinary jobs on
earth.
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