Blowing My Cover : My Life as a CIA Spy
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Written by Lindsay Moran.
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Call me naïve, but when I was a girl-watching James Bond and devouring Harriet the Spy-all I wanted was to grow up to be a spy. Unlike most kids, I didn't lose my secret-agent aspirations. So as a bright-eyed, idealistic college grad, I sent my resume to the CIA.Getting in was a story in itself. I peed in more cups than you could imagine, and was nearly condemned as a sexual deviant by the staff psychologist. My roommates were getting freaked out by government investigators lurking around, asking questions about my past.
Finally, the CIA was training me to crash cars into barriers at 60 mph. Jump out of airplanes with cargo attached to my body. Survive interrogation, travel in alias, lose a tail. One thing they didn't teach us was how to date a guy while lying to him about what you do for a living. That I had to figure out for myself.
Then I was posted overseas. And that's when the real fun began.
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Mari thinks this book is Good.
This is a fast paced look at one woman's life working for the CIA. The reader learns more about her boyfriends than her work (understandably, as the CIA reviewed the content before it was published), but the writing is fresh and entertaining.
The author's biases grated on me after a while, and she focuses on the decidedly unglamorous aspects of her job, but I enjoyed it as a quick read.