Publisher's Synopsis
What happens when a father asks his son to lie for the greater good?
Growing up, Scott Johnson always suspected that his dad was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, a trusted CIA officer. At first the secret was thrilling. But Scott began to realise his father had been living a double life for so long that his lies were hard to separate from the truth.
When Scott embarked on a career as a foreign correspondent, he found himself returning to many of the troubled countries of his youth. In the dusty streets of Pakistan and Afghanistan, amid the cold urbanity of Yugoslavia, and down the mysterious alleys of Mexico City, he came face to face with his father's murky past - and his own complicity in it. In the aftermath of 9/11, father and son found themselves on assignment in Afghanistan and the Middle East, one as a CIA contractor, the other as a Newsweek reporter. Suddenly, Scott was forced to keep his father's secret again. As their professional lives collided, the two inched toward a personal reckoning, struggling to overcome a lifetime of suspicion and deception.
The Wolf and the Watchman is a provocative, meditative account of truth and duplicity, manipulation and loyalty. It is also a moving, intimate portrait of a bond between father and son that endured in the shadow of one of the world's most secretive and unforgiving institutions.
