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Life Undercover : Coming of Age in the CIA by Fox, Amaryllis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love ." — The New York Times Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford studying theology and international law when her writing mentor Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, Fox applied to a master's program in conflict and terrorism at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, where she created an algorithm that predicted, with uncanny certainty, the likelihood of a terrorist cell arising in any village around the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. Her first assignment was reading and analyzing hundreds of classified cables a day from foreign governments and synthesizing them into daily briefs for the president. Her next assignment was at the Iraq desk in the Counterterrorism center. At twenty-two, she was fast-tracked into advanced operations training,
Who reads Life Undercover : Coming of Age in the CIA?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Fox, Amaryllis
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780525654971
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, True Crime, Political Science
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (2,547 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14