July Book

Meeting Date: July 24, 7:00 PM

Book: Blowing My Cover by Lindsay Moran

Book Description:
A clever, funny memoir from a young woman who fulfills her Mission: Impossible dreams by joining the CIA, only to discover that the life of a spy is not at all what she expected.

Lindsay Moran was a bright-eyed, idealistic Harvard graduate who hoped to serve her patriotic duty while living a life she'd first dreamed of as a child watching James Bond movies and reading Harriet the Spy. After applying to the CIA and passing lie detector tests, background investigations, and psychological screenings, she soon found herself in training at the Farm, learning how to crash cars through barriers at a hundred miles an hour, not to mention how to withstand interrogation.

But she was simultaneously learning that the life of a spy wasn't nearly the glamorous-not to mention principled-job she thought it would be. Her first posting, to Macedonia, confirmed it, as she witnessed firsthand the culture inside an organization whose intelligence failures led to tragic results during her own tenure. With a true story both thoughtful and funny, a wonderful new talent pulls open the doors to the CIA (from: Amazon.com)

About the Author:
Lindsay Moran is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today. From 1998 to 2003, she worked as a case officer for the CIA.

Websites:
official CIA website
http://www.cia.gov/

Wikipedia Entry for CIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA

BookPage Review
http://www.bookpage.com/0502bp/nonfiction/blowing_my_cover.html

Interview with Lindsay Moran
http://www.eyeonbooks.com/ibp.php?ISBN=0399152393

Lindsay Moran's Website
http://www.blowingmycover.com/