True Men and Traitors: My Life in the CIA

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Summary: Great insight !
Review: People's reasons vary on why they pick up certain books to read. For me, I have always had an interest in working for the US intelligence community and have lately been looking for books such as this which give a clear view into what a 27 year career was like in the CIA. Doyle paints a picture of how he came to working the in the intel business at the time the agency was officially formed and takes us through the most significant exploits of his career abroad. I would highly recommend that anyone wanting to get a better idea of what life is like "in the shadows" pick up this book. See if you can actually put it down...

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Summary: A Fascinating, Realistic Account of Life in the CIA
Review: This is a factual, no nonsense account of what it is really like to work for the CIA. There are no embellishments, no twisting of the truth for entertainment value. This is a true story of one of the "true men", who lived by the rules and who has a rich inventory of experiences from which to draw. This is a perceptive recounting of a life well-lived and the policies and actions - both good and bad - which have shaped our nation's premier intelligence agency.

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Summary: Pick another book
Review: This was a very disappointing book. The author may have been a fine CIA Operative, but an interesting author he is not. He was not into sharing much detail of "spook" type work. This was more a descriptive political analysis of the countries in which he was assigned and a moralistic soapbox against those agents (rightfully so) that turned into traitors. The book itself was almost void of any specific operations and their analysis.