A clever, funny memoir from a young woman who fulfills her "Mission: Impossible" dreams by joining the CIA, only to discover that the life of a spy is not at all what she expected. Lindsay Moran was a bright-eyed, idealistic Harvard graduate who hoped to serve her patriotic duty while living a life she'd first dreamed of as a child watching James Bond movies and reading "Harriet the Spy." After applying to the CIA and passing lie detector tests, background investigations, and psychological screenings, she soon found herself in training at the Farm, learning how to crash cars through barriers at a hundred miles an hour, not to mention how to withstand interrogation. But she was simultaneously learning that the life of a spy wasn't nearly the glamorous-not to mention principled-job she thought it would be. Her first posting, to Macedonia, confirmed it, as she witnessed firsthand the culture inside an organization whose intelligence failures led to tragic results during her own tenure. With a true story both thoughtful and funny, a wonderful new talent pulls open the doors to the CIA.
- ISBN10 1101109246
- ISBN13 9781101109243
- Publish Date 1 November 2005 (first published 29 December 2004)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 11 April 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Berkley Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 304
- Language English