ChuckBeatty

The author reads the audible edition, worth it

Revisado: 11-30-24

Jacobsen isn't as granular as some of the ex CIA people's books she mentions as characters in this important story.

As a layman citizen, I always wished to know of this world of persons, doing the most sensitive and edge of the sword duty.

Worthy book, and I'd recommend all the books by those she mentions in this story, as I've read most of those also, and all together this fully briefs me on this whole important world of US career persons fighting today in the most dangerous but needed battle zones.

She reads her own book with sincerity, and not professionally as a narrator, but her concise short sentences spoken by her, show her careful consideration of what words she wrote and now speaks to the audience.

To understand this whole world, I'd recommend reading all of the books by those persons who wrote books, of the career persons mentioned in this book.

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Loads of little details

Revisado: 10-15-24

I wait for the next detailed Shane Harris book.

Books just have the length restrictions removed so loads of material can be laid out.

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I love good guy FBI people books!

Revisado: 08-19-23

Genuine good guy FBI people books I will read forever. This is a great one.

Another great good guy FBI person book is Ali Soufan's "The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda"

I highly recommend this book and Soufan's book.

I love all the ex CIA peoples' books also.

Good guys in US Govt need be prominently held up, to inspire future good guys in US Govt!

Excellent themes and issues start to finish.

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Content excellent, narrator at times poor

Revisado: 07-22-23

This book is a great one.

This work ought to be redone by a compassionate wise Buddhist teacher.

This professional book reader unfortunately enters his imperfect character tone and voice into the Buddha's sayings, which at times the narrator's voice is noticeably strindent and unlike for instance Bhikkhu Bodhi's voice when he speaks the Buddha's sayings.

The content carries the narrator's imperfect character.

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As an undereducated layman, Bamford is excellent

Revisado: 03-11-23

I used to work in the Scientology cult, and worked in their 11 million dollar "Computer Operations" room in LA in the early 1990s, and "Puzzle Palace" even was recommended reading and it spell bound me.

We thought in Scientology land that we were clever and "off line" with our system, but the opposite, anyways, I wrote up a report after reading "Puzzle Palace" of how screwed we were, and crickets. As a cult, who cares really, our "secrets" were not interesting, so what.

Over the years I've heard Bamford speak, and always still way above what I will ever really understand, but I so appreciate, as a 70 year old, semi retired wacky lived adult, his intelligence community (IC) details, and his journalistic principles.

Excellent book, if one's interested and appreciative of all of Bamford's excellent history of journalism.

As a Luddite "normal" pro Israel American, I thought he was a little hard on Israel, for their look the other way allowed spywork in the US,

Education is the answer, more adult education worldwide, just make people everywhere smarter, keep the population reading as adults somehow.

Wish life were longer so I could read more books.

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Precise and exact

Revisado: 02-25-23

Training manual precise. Wish success to future interrogators by reading this book.

Humility and homework and psychological prowess and precision.

Inspiring FBI career person book, and the best book I've read in three years, the content is very worthy.

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Covers the basics of todays intel world USA

Revisado: 02-08-23

Concise understandable. Reads like a rounded intel lecturers course. Felt like a semester basic course.

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A worthy history

Revisado: 01-29-23

With so much to tell, the book covers it well.
Among the best if not the best CIA required reading.

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Scientology's Lawyers Ought to be Ashamed!!!!!

Revisado: 11-25-22

The largest horror to me, are lawyers who work for Scientology and dismiss and do not read Mike Rinder's chapters regarding the "Hole".

The "Hole" alone is reason for all lawyers EVER in the future, to become aware of who David Miscavige, and the remaining "leaders" of Scientology are of this character people.

Scientology leaders that Mike Rinder, including Mike's wife, who turned viciously against Mike while in the "Hole" with Mike, is reason to never equate Scientology leaders with normal religions' leaders.

Scientology's lawyers should be sickened, and damn ALL Scientology lawyers who fail to read the Mike Rinder chapter on the "Hole" and don't make some public statement.

Scientology's lawyers are complicit with the serial cult self abuse that Mike details.

Damn all Scientology lawyers, forever, until they speak up, about Mike's horrors detailed.

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ex CIA officials’ books I’ve found one for one excellent

Revisado: 10-24-22

This one gives a look at inside CIA mole hunting and as Baer has said in interviews this really is as good as fiction.

The real ex CIA officers’ books are just better and I can’t stand fiction anymore.

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