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Jack Devine ran Charlie Wilson’s War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold
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War, and it was Devine who put the brand-new Stinger missile into the hands of the mujahideen
during their war with the Soviets, paving the way to a decisive victory against the Russians. He
also pushed the CIA’s effort to run down the narcotics trafficker Pablo Escobar in Colombia. He
tried to warn the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, that there was a bullet coming
from Iraq with his name on it. He was in Chile when Allende fell, and he had too much to do with
Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it. And he tangled with Rick Ames, the KGB
spy inside the CIA, and hunted Robert Hanssen, the mole in the FBI.
Good Hunting: An American Spymaster’s Story is the spellbinding memoir of Devine’s time in
the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served for more than thirty years, rising to become the
acting deputy director of operations, responsible for all of the CIA’s spying operations. This is a
story of intrigue and high-stakes maneuvering, all the more gripping when the fate of our
geopolitical order hangs in the balance. But this book also sounds a warning to our nation’s
decision makers: covert operations, not costly and devastating full-scale interventions, are the
best safeguard of America’s interests worldwide.

Part memoir, part historical redress, Good Hunting debunks outright some of the myths
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misuses. Beneath SELLER
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abroad with his wife and six children, running operations in seven countries, and serving
successive presidents from Nixon to Clinton—this is a realist, gimlet-eyed account of the Agency.
In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for
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Assad or We Burn the Countryexamines Syria's tragedy through the generational saga of the Assad and Tlass
families,
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light on now of
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Dagher takes readers within palace walls to reveal the family behind the destruction of a country and the
account. With the historical acumen of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and gripping scenarios that evoke
chaos of an entire region.
the novels of John le Carré even as they hew closely to the facts on the ground, Devine offers a
master class in
Dagher shows spycraft.
how one of the world's most vicious police states came to be and explains how a regional
conflict extended globally, engulfing the Middle East and pitting the United States and Russia against one
another.

Timely, propulsive, and expertly reported,Assad or We Burn the Countryis the definitive account of this
global crisis, going far beyond the news story that has dominated headlines for years.

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