Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Amazon.com Review An Amazon Best Book of October 2019: While Amaryllis Fox’s memoir of her years as a CIA covert agent reads like a John le Carré novel come to life, the writing makes vehemently clear that a real person is moving in and out of the shadows. When the CIA recruits Fox as a Georgetown graduate student after she writes an algorithm to help predict terrorist attacks, her double life begins. After Fox goes through the weeding-out process, she’s forced to tell a good friend, also in contention for a CIA role, that she wasn’t selected. “Yeah right, I bet they just told you to say that,” the friend sagely remarks, and Fox bursts into tears, gutted by losing the last friend who knows the truth. Six months of advanced operations training at “the Farm” launches her into covert operations in the Middle East, where she’s tasked with finding would-be terrorists or terrorist suppliers and turning them into CIA sources. But marriage to another agent, a baby, and living in China while under constant supervision also take their toll. Even as Fox wins praise from Langley for her astonishing work in the field, her interior life is crumbling. Fox demonstrates not only the bravery and guts of young CIA agents—for they are almost all young—but the courage it takes to challenge whether a life of lies is a life worth living. Sparely written and gripping, Amaryllis Fox’s memoir dives into the beating heart of undercover work, illuminating its corrosive effects on the spirit even as she celebrates the humanity behind the hard-won triumphs. —Adrian Liang, Amazon Book Review Read more Review One of People Magazine's Best Books of Fall 2019 "A riveting account of the decade the author spent risking her life in the CIA’s most clandestine unit." --People "Gripping... Fox masterfully conveys the exhilaration and loneliness of life undercover, and her memoir reads like a great espionage novel." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Extraordinary... [A] remarkable life...Fox engagingly—and transparently—describes her work as an undercover agent for the CIA." --Kirkus Reviews Read more See all Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review An Amazon Best Book of October 2019: While Amaryllis Fox’s memoir of her years as a CIA covert agent reads like a John le Carré novel come to life, the writing makes vehemently clear that a real person is moving in and out of the shadows. When the CIA recruits Fox as a Georgetown graduate student after she writes an algorithm to help predict terrorist attacks, her double life begins. After Fox goes through the weeding-out process, she’s forced to tell a good friend, also in contention for a CIA role, that she wasn’t selected. “Yeah right, I bet they just told you to say that,” the friend sagely remarks, and Fox bursts into tears, gutted by losing the last friend who knows the truth. Six months of advanced operations training at “the Farm” launches her into covert operations in the Middle East, where she’s tasked with finding would-be terrorists or terrorist suppliers and turning them into CIA sources. But marriage to another agent, a baby, and living in China while under constant supervision also take their toll. Even as Fox wins praise from Langley for her astonishing work in the field, her interior life is crumbling. Fox demonstrates not only the bravery and guts of young CIA agents—for they are almost all young—but the courage it takes to challenge whether a life of lies is a life worth living. Sparely written and gripping, Amaryllis Fox’s memoir dives into the beating heart of undercover work, illuminating its corrosive effects on the spirit even as she celebrates the humanity behind the hard-won triumphs. —Adrian Liang, Amazon Book Review Read more Review One of People Magazine's Best Books of Fall 2019 "A riveting account of the decade the author spent risking her life in the CIA’s most clandestine unit." --People "Gripping... Fox masterfully conveys the exhilaration and loneliness of life undercover, and her memoir reads like a great espionage novel." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Extraordinary... [A] remarkable life...Fox engagingly—and transparently—describes her work as an undercover agent for the CIA." --Kirkus Reviews Read more See all Editorial Reviews
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