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Doing Time Like A Spy

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Memoir
Unabridged   12 hour(s)
Publication date: 05/14/2019


Winner of the 2016 PEN First Amendment Award
Winner of the 2013 Peacemaker of the Year Award

Doing Time Like A Spy

How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684572304
Digital Download ISBN:9781684572311

Summary

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.

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Product Description

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.

Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. Including his award-winning blog series "Letters from Loretto," Doing Time Like a Spy is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.

Reviews/Praise

"Kiriakou confidently portrays himself as a larger-than-life survivor type, justifiably proud of his stance against CIA-sanctioned torture...An irreverent and unsettling footnote to the war on terror." ―Kirkus Reviews

"A great memoir offers the-rest-of-the-story appeal, and when the CIA, 9/11, waterboarding, whistleblowing, scapegoating, coverups, and federal prison all factor in, the page turning reaches hyperdrive." ―Foreword Reviews

Author Bio

John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News. He is the author of The Reluctant Spy and The Convenient Terrorist.