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One Day in Paris
- A Year in the Life of Dan Blake
- Narrated by: Andrew Brel
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Publisher's summary
Colonel Dan Blake's 18-year career in the British Army comes to an abrupt end when he fails a psychiatric evaluation when in line for the top job in counterterrorism at MI5. Finding himself unexpectedly unemployed, Blake travels to Moscow to visit his one real friend, Edwin Mallory, himself a high-achieving Cambridge peer 18 years into a high-flying career with MI6.
In Mallory's Moscow circle, Blake meets oil billionaire Sheikh Mohammad al Hussein. The meeting leads to a job offer for Blake's unique skill set. Newly funded with unlimited means, now possessed with motive and opportunity, Blake has one year to set his skills against the world’s leading security agencies in a battlefield where failure means certain death, while success presents unlimited possibilities and unimaginably lucrative redemption.
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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 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.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Deceptive title and sample.
- By Philip Yaghmai on 07-17-18
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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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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 1,144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,028
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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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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Class 11
- Inside the CIA's First Post-9/11 Spy Class
- By: T.J. Waters
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 155
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 91
Written by one of its own graduates, Class 11: Inside the CIA's First Post-9/11 Spy Class is an insider's view of the first CIA training class after September 11, 2001 - a look at the most elite and secretive espionage training program in the country.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Save Your Money
- By Daniel on 11-27-06
By: T.J. Waters
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Failures of Imagination
- The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland - and How to Thwart Them
- By: Michael McCaul
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4 out of 5 stars 53
Congressman and Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, Michael McCaul, has spent years in Washington watching the administration turn a blind eye to the most pressing possible threats to the country. Now, in Failures of Imagination, McCaul turns away from the over-sensationalized, unrealistic fears circulated through the media in order to expose the most legitimate and looming national security threats, which have long been swept under the rug by the administration.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spot on.
- By Prince Parker on 02-27-16
By: Michael McCaul
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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 117
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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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amazing story
- By Ryan Palmer on 10-05-18
By: Duane Evans
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Spies in the Family
- An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
- By: Eva Dillon
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 258
In the summer of 1975, 17-year-old Eva Dillon's family was living in New Delhi when her father was exposed as a CIA spy. Eva had long believed that her father was a US State Department employee. She had no idea that he was handling the CIA's highest ranking double agent - Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov, a Soviet general whose code name was TOPHAT. Dillon's father and Polyakov had a close friendship that went back years, to their first meeting in Burma in the mid-1960s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVED it!
- By SaraofDI on 11-06-17
By: Eva Dillon
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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 860
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 723
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 716
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 Book of Honor
- The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives
- By: Ted Gup
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 162
In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall in to which seventy-one stars are carved - each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty. At the base of this wall lies "The Book of Honor," in which the names of these agents are inscribed, or at least thirty-five of them... In this remarkable program, author Ted Gup delves into covert lives and classified deaths at the CIA.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Painfully narrated.
- By RM on 08-16-19
By: Ted Gup
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Operation Shakespeare
- The True Story of an Elite International Sting
- By: John Shiffman
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
In Operation Shakespeare, investigative journalist John Shiffman traces a high-risk undercover operation launched by an elite undercover Homeland Security unit created to stop the Iranians, Russians, Chinese, Pakistanis, and North Koreans from acquiring sophisticated American-made electronics capable of guiding missiles, jamming radar, and triggering countless weapons - from wireless IEDs to nuclear bombs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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under our noses
- By Andy on 08-20-14
By: John Shiffman
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The Mirror Test
- America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
- By: J. Kael Weston
- Narrated by: J. Kael Weston
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working for the US State Department in some of the most dangerous frontline locations. Upon his return home, while traveling the country to pay respect to the dead and wounded, he asked himself: When will these wars end? How will they be remembered and memorialized? What lessons can we learn from them?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- By Jessica Myrick on 06-04-16
By: J. Kael Weston
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The Reluctant Spy
- My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror
- By: John Kiriakou, Michael Ruby
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 131
Long before the waterboarding controversy exploded in the media, one CIA agent had already gone public. In a groundbreaking 2007 interview with ABC News, John Kiriakou called waterboarding torture - but admitted that it probably worked. This book, at once a confessional, an adventure story, and a chronicle of Kiriakou's life in the CIA, stands as an important, eloquent piece of testimony from a committed American patriot.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Read about the CIA
- By Nancy on 05-13-10
By: John Kiriakou, and others
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Striking Back
- The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response
- By: Aaron J. Klein
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 717
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 402
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 404
1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group murder 11 Israeli athletes. Nine hundred million people watch the crisis unfold on television, witnessing a tragedy that inaugurates the modern age of terror.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very, very good book. When researched.
- By Roadrunner At Large on 01-26-06
By: Aaron J. Klein
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The Kremlin Conspiracy
- A Marcus Ryker Novel, Book 1
- By: Joel C. Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,853
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,370
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,342
Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen and lightning-fast military strike that could rupture the NATO alliance and bring Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war. But in his blind spot is the former U.S. Secret Service agent, Marcus Ryker.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding thriller
- By DIANE M TINKLE on 03-12-18
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A Rope and a Prayer
- The Story of a Kidnapping
- By: David Rohde, Kristen Mulvihill
- Narrated by: David Rohde, Kristen Mulvihill
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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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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The Cell
- Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It
- By: John Miller, Michael Stone, Chris Mitchell
- Narrated by: John Miller
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 142
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
The Cell provides the first complete treatment to piece together what led to the events of 9/11, ultimately delivering the disturbing answer to the question: why, with all the information the intelligence community had, was no one able to stop the September 11 attacks? It also includes a first-person account of John Miller's face-to-face meeting with Osama bin Laden.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What led up to 9/11?
- By Richard on 12-31-03
By: John Miller, and others