Good Hunting

Good Hunting An American Spymaster's Story

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Hardback (01 Jan 2014)

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Publisher's Synopsis

"A master class in spycraft from one of its greatest practitioners. Jack Devine is one of the legendary spymasters of our time. He was in Chile when Allende fell; he ran Charlie Wilson's war in Afghanistan; he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it; he caught Pablo Escobar in Colombia; he tried to warn George Tenet that there was a bullet coming from Iraq with his name on it. Devine served America's interests for more than thirty years in a wide range of covert operations, ultimately overseeing the Directorate of Operations, a CIA division that watches over thousands of American covert operatives worldwide. Good Hunting is his guide to the art of spycraft, told with great wit, candor, and commonsense wisdom. Caricatured by Hollywood, lionized by the right, and pilloried by the left, the CIA remains one of the least understood instruments of the United States government. Devine knows more than

Book information

ISBN: 9780374130329
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Imprint: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 327.12730092
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 324 , 8 of unnumbered plates
Weight: 454g
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm