March 2010
politics
Simultaneous Release Foreword by Bruce Riedel
John Kiriakou with Michael Ruby
The Reluctant Spy My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror
The Reluctant Spy reveals 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.
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.
Read by Arthur Morey
Category: Politics Running Time: 7 hrs - Unabridged Hardcover: 03/16/2010 (45,000 Bantam) Territory: US and Canada On Sale Date: 03/16/2010 Trade 9781400115983 6 Audio CDs $29.99 Library 9781400145980 6 Audio CDs $59.99 MP3 9781400165988 1 MP3-CD $19.99 John Kiriakou is a senior investigator on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, focusing on the Middle East, South Asia, and international terrorism. His op-eds on the Middle East and Afghanistan have appeared in more than eighty newspapers in dozens of countries. Michael Ruby is an award-winning journalist who has worked for BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. His book collaborations include Don Hewitt’s Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television. Arthur Morey has performed in theaters and cabarets in New York, Chicago, and Milan. Winner of three Earphones Awards, he has narrated novels by John Irving and Richard Russo, as well as non-fiction by John McCain and George Tenet.
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.
Chronicling both mind-boggling mistakes and heroic acts of individual courage, The Reluctant Spy is essential listening 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. Marketing • Insider perspective from a former CIA agent • National review and feature attention • NPR interviews • Author tour: New York, Washington, D.C. • Radio phone interviews • National and local radio and TV interviews Praise for The reluctant spy
“Retired CIA agent Kiriakou tells an engrossing story and delivers some strong opinions.” —Publishers Weekly
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