Breaking Cover
My Secret Life in the CIA and What it Taught Me About What's Worth Fighting For
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Michele Rigby Assad
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The CIA is looking for walking contradictions. Recruiters seek people who can keep a secret, yet pull classified information out of others; who love their country, but are willing to leave it behind to head into dangerous places; who live double lives, but can be trusted with some of the nation's most highly sensitive tasks.
Michele Rigby Assad was one of those people.
As a CIA agent, Michele soon found that working undercover was an all-encompassing job. The threats were real. The mission was a perilous one. Trained as a counterterrorism expert, Michele spent over a decade in the agency - a woman leading some of the most highly skilled operatives on the planet, secretly serving in some the most treacherous areas of the Middle East. But deep inside, Michele wondered: Could she really do this job? Was she in the right place at the right time, or had she misunderstood what she thought was God's calling on her life? Did she have what it would take to survive?
The answer came when Michele faced a life-or-death choice - one that had secretly been the plan for her all along. In Breaking Cover, Michele has at last been cleared to drop cover and tell her story: one of incredible struggle; of thwarted plans and expectations; and most of all, of discovering a faith greater than all her fears.
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
The compelling and insightful account of a New York Times reporter's abduction by the Taliban and his wife's struggle to free him. Invited to an interview by a Taliban commander, New York Times reporter David Rohde and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped in November 2008 and spirited to the tribal areas of Pakistan. For the next seven months, they lived in an alternate reality, ruled by jihadists, in which paranoia, conspiracy theories, and shifting alliances abounded.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A History Lesson
- By Ed on 12-31-10
By: David Rohde, and others
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Argo
- How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
- By: Antonio Mendez, Matt Baglio
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 765
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 679
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 683
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Armed with foreign film visas, Mendez and an unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders traveled to Tehran....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better Than the Movie
- By Debra Garfinkle on 11-28-12
By: Antonio Mendez, and others
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Black Ops
- The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
- By: Ric Prado
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,151
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,034
Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central Intelligence Agency as the CIA equivalent of a two-star general. Black Ops is the story of Ric’s legendary career that spanned two eras, the Cold War and the Age of Terrorism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Impressive and Inspiring!
- By medardo on 03-12-22
By: Ric Prado
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Foxtrot in Kandahar
- A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War
- By: Duane Evans
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 111
Kandahar. The ancient desert crossroads and, as of fall of 2001, ground zero for the Taliban and al-Qa'ida in southern Afghanistan. In the northern part of the country, the US-supported Northern Alliance has made progress on the battlefield, but in the south, the country is still under the Taliban's bloody hold and al-Qa'ida continues to operate there. With no "Southern Alliance" for the US to support, a new strategy is needed if victory is to be achieved. Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans is dispatched to Pakistan to "get something going in the South." Foxtrot in Kandahar is his story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating look into CIA ground forces in early Afghanistan
- By Invictus on 09-23-18
By: Duane Evans
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Within Arm's Length
- A Secret Service Agent's Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President
- By: Dan Emmett
- Narrated by: Kevin Foley
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 173
Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The events surrounding the president's death shaped the course of young Emmett's life as he set a goal of becoming a U.S. Secret Service agent-one of a special group of people willing to trade their lives for that of the president, if necessary. Within Arm's Length is a revealing and compelling inside look at the Secret Service and the elite Presidential Protective Division (PPD).
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3 out of 5 stars
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Obviously a dedicated patriot
- By Nick L on 11-19-14
By: Dan Emmett
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It Happened on the Way to War
- A Marine's Path to Peace
- By: Rye Barcott
- Narrated by: Rye Barcott
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 168
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4 out of 5 stars 145
In 2000 Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a college student heading into the Marines, and he sought to better understand ethnic violence - something he would likely face later in uniform. He learned Swahili, asked questions, and listened to young people talk about how they survived in poverty he had never imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not What You Think It Is
- By Hailey on 10-01-12
By: Rye Barcott
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The Fox Hunt
- A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America
- By: Mohammed Al Samawi
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 138
Born in the Old City of Sana’a, Yemen, to a pair of middle-class doctors, Mohammed Al Samawi was a devout Muslim raised to think of Christians and Jews as his enemy. But when Mohammed was 23, he secretly received a copy of the Bible, and what he read cast doubt on everything he’d previously believed. After connecting with Jews and Christians on social media, and at various international interfaith conferences, Mohammed became an activist, making it his mission to promote dialogue and cooperation in Yemen. Then came the death threats....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging and informative memoir
- By Mark on 08-02-18
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The Triple Agent
- The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
- By: Joby Warrick
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 861
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 724
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 717
In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a 30-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great modern history story
- By Melissa on 08-11-11
By: Joby Warrick
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The Main Enemy
- The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
- By: Milton Bearden, James Risen
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 836
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 747
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 737
A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them. Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they dodge surveillance and walk into violent ambushes in Moscow. This is the story of the generation of spies who came of age in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis and rose to run the CIA and KGB in the last days of the Cold War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A masterpiece of espionage history
- By kucherv on 08-21-18
By: Milton Bearden, and others
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The Quiet Professional: Major Richard J. Meadows of the U.S. Army Special Forces
- American Warriors
- By: Alan Hoe
- Narrated by: David Gilmore
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 260
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Story5 out of 5 stars 228
Major Richard J. "Dick" Meadows is renowned in military circles as a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army Special Operations. A highly decorated war veteran of the engagements in Korea and Vietnam, Meadows was instrumental in the founding of the U.S. Delta Force and hostage rescue force. Although he officially retired in 1977, Meadows could never leave the army behind, and he went undercover in the clandestine operations to free American hostages from Iran in 1980.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another possibly good book ruined by poor performance
- By Justin L. on 11-15-20
By: Alan Hoe
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Left of Boom
- How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
- By: Douglas Laux, Ralph Pezzullo
- Narrated by: Mike Dawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,296
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,160
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,166
On September 11, 2001, Doug Laux was a freshman in college, on the path to becoming a doctor. But with the fall of the Twin Towers came a turning point in his life. After graduating, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency, determined to get himself to Afghanistan and into the center of the action. Through persistence and hard work, he was fast-tracked to a clandestine operations position overseas. Dropped into a remote region of Afghanistan, he received his baptism by fire.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too Censerord to be Enjoyable
- By Nathan on 08-26-16
By: Douglas Laux, and others
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It Worked for Me
- In Life and Leadership
- By: Colin Powell
- Narrated by: Colin Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,852
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,492
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,480
It Worked for Me is filled with vivid experiences and lessons learned that have shaped the legendary career of the four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. At its heart are Powell's "Thirteen Rules" - such as "Get mad, then get over it" and "Share credit" - that introduce his principles for effective leadership: conviction, hard work, and, above all, respect for others. A natural storyteller, Powell offers warm and engaging parables with wise advice on succeeding in the workplace and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It worked for me too.
- By Ian on 06-04-12
By: Colin Powell
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Always Faithful
- A Story of the War in Afghanistan, the Fall of Kabul, and the Unshakable Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter
- By: Thomas Schueman, Zainullah Zaki
- Narrated by: Patrick Kirchner, Wali Habib
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 182
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 168
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Story5 out of 5 stars 170
Band of Brothers meets Argo in this dramatic and heartfelt dual memoir of the war in Afghanistan told by two men from opposite worlds. Always Faithful entwines the stories of Marine Major Tom Schueman, and his friend and Afghan interpreter, Zainullah “Zak” Zaki, as they describe their parallel lives, converging paths, and unbreakable bond in the face of overwhelming danger, culminating in Zak and his family’s harrowing escape from Kabul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Read!
- By justin on 08-13-22
By: Thomas Schueman, and others
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The Mission, the Men, and Me
- Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
- By: Pete Blaber
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,786
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,258
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,249
As a commander of Delta Force - the most elite counter terrorist organization in the world - Pete Blaber took part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time. Now he takes his intimate knowledge of warfare - and the heart, mind, and spirit it takes to win - and moves his focus from the combat zone to civilian life. As the smoke clears from exciting stories about never-before-revealed top-secret missions that were executed all over the globe, listeners will emerge wiser, more capable, and more ready for life's personal victories than they ever thought possible.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narrator.
- By Amazon Customer on 08-09-18
By: Pete Blaber
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Enhanced Interrogation
- Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying To Destroy America
- By: James E. Mitchell Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Ryan Rennot
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 781
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 708
In the dark days immediately after 9/11, the CIA turned to Dr. James Mitchell to help craft an interrogation program designed to elicit intelligence from just-captured top al-Qa'ida leaders and terror suspects. A civilian contractor who had spent years training US military members to resist interrogation should they be captured, Mitchell, aware of the urgent need to prevent impending catastrophic attacks, worked with the CIA to implement "enhanced interrogation techniques" - which included waterboarding.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Part curtain pull, part self defense
- By Tim Hairston on 12-15-16
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Wise Gals
- The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
- By: Nathalia Holt
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 149
In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the “wise gals” by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humor and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing untold history
- By Andrea Guzman on 12-15-22
By: Nathalia Holt
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- Unabridged
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While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Compelling as historical thriller, character study
- By Mr. Pointy on 08-25-15
By: David E. Hoffman
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Stakeknife's Dirty War
- How Scappaticci, British Intelligence and Special Branch Ran the IRA
- By: Richard O'Rawe
- Narrated by: Alan Turkington
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Freddie Scappaticci was born in 1946 and raised in a deeply nationalist area of Belfast. When the Troubles broke out in 1969, he joined the Provisional IRA, where he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming commander of Belfast in 1984. From the outside, Scappaticci appeared to be a dedicated volunteer, but inwardly, he had become disenchanted with the IRA and, in 1977, he started working for British intelligence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spooks and Squirrels
- By Amazon Customer on 11-19-23
By: Richard O'Rawe
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The Targeter
- My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House
- By: Nada Bakos, Davin Coburn
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for intelligence work, Nada was determined to rise through the ranks of the agency first as an analyst and then as a Targeting Officer, eventually finding herself on the frontline of America's War against Islamic extremists. In this role, Nada was charged with determining if Iraq had a relationship with 9/11 and Al-Qaida, and finding the mastermind behind this terrorist activity: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible book. Feminazi Propaganda
- By Dan Wells on 08-24-19
By: Nada Bakos, and others
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Blind Man's Bluff
- The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
- By: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,499
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,301
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,299
No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, all hands lost, 30 years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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best Cold War documentary...
- By Kojoukhinator Sr. on 11-15-17
By: Sherry Sontag, and others
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Spy the Lie
- Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception
- By: Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, and others
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,000
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,624
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,626
Imagine how different your life would be if you could tell whether someone was lying or telling you the truth. Be it hiring a new employee, investing in a financial interest, speaking with your child about drugs, confronting your significant other about suspected infidelity, or even dating someone new, having the ability to unmask a lie can have far-reaching and even life-altering consequences. As former CIA officers, Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero are among the world’s best at recognizing deceptive behavior.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, with one disappointment
- By Kim on 08-07-12
By: Philip Houston, and others
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In True Face
- A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
- By: Jonna Mendez
- Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin-Creel
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their apartment. Yet Mendez had a talent for espionage, too, and she soon took on bigger and more significant roles at the Agency. She parlayed her interest in photography into an operational role overseas, an unlikely area for a woman in the CIA.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling in the CIA
- By Maggie May on 03-11-24
By: Jonna Mendez
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Legacy of Ashes
- The History of the CIA
- By: Tim Weiner
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 21 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,613
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,878
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,862
This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders to the American public. It spun its own truth to the nation while reality lay buried in classified archives. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Tim Weiner offers a stunning indictment of the CIA, a deeply flawed organization that has never deserved America's confidence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Flawed but Important
- By Michael on 07-18-08
By: Tim Weiner
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- Megan A. Mercer
- 02-24-18
Amazing and Fascinating!
Michelle kept me on the edge of my feet. Her story is intriguing and inspiring. I finished the book feeling inspired to do more with my life!
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- JuicyFruity87
- 11-16-18
Life altering book
I cannot begin to describe on how emotional moved I am by this book. Thank you, Michelle, for sharing your story. I’ve inspired me to do more with my life and get of the X.
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- Nancy Huerter
- 04-16-19
Good story, bad book
This was a story worth telling but it is not written well. It is repetitive, full of cliches (religious and otherwise) and much too self-conscious. I finished it since it was for book club but turned it off several times because It was so annoying.
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- Mike
- 02-22-18
Definitely worth a listen.
Very interesting story and quite different than expected. Held my attention the entire time and great to know people like this exist in the world.
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- wiskersa
- 03-12-18
Fascinating true story.
If you could sum up Breaking Cover in three words, what would they be?
Amazing what this woman accomplished in the CIA after thinking everyone else was smarter than she was. Trusting always in God for his work in her life. Working together with her husband in some of the worst places and conditions in the world.
What does Michele Rigby Assad bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Having felt many times that I wasn't as smart as other people after starting work in a man's field and succeeding. Knowing that other women have felt the same.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
yes
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- Veronique B. LaRocco
- 04-22-20
Amazing human along with the power of prayer
I normally don’t write that many reviews, however this is a special read for all those that have struggled or lost faith. I am power to have these types of people serving our country and humanity.
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- Bob
- 07-21-19
Riveting
I loved this book. It was also a treat to listen to the author read her own story.
I learned so much about our countries intelligence and appreciate that she went to the trouble to break her cover and share with fellow citizens.
Thank you Michele!!!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-19-18
Highly Recommended!
Enjoyed every chapter and very grateful for the opportunity to learn from Michelle's experiences. My family was inspired even from hearing the stories second hand from me.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-07-18
Incredible!
I will be recommending this book to all of my friends! The words and phrases that I believe can be used to describe this book: Captivating, encouraging, a call to action, a reminder to trust the God who can handle all things, heart wrenching and heart warming. Michele - Thank you for your service and for sharing your story! I will be praying for your continued work and for our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.
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- C Wood
- 03-20-18
Story about faith, prayer & the internal battle
Awesome book! I was in Iraq 2005 - Ramadan 2006 as well. Place was exhausting!
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