Blowing My Cover, Lindsay Moran
Blowing My Cover, Lindsay Moran
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Blowing My Cover
My Life as a CIA Spy

Author: Lindsay Moran

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/27/2021


Synopsis

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.

About Lindsay Moran

Lindsay Moran is a former CIA operative, analyst, and author of Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy. She is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia and a former Fulbright Scholar. Today, Lindsay is a freelance writer, consultant, and commentator on issues related to security and human intelligence; she also serves as a facilitator for scientific consortiums.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas

I love this disarming, straightforward memoir of what it's like to be young, female, and working for the CIA. At times the author seems sort of frivolous and self-indulgent, but that's precisely what makes it so different than all the other intelligence memoirs out there, and fantastically readable.......more

Goodreads review by J.T.

I loved this book. Moran nails the inner turmoil that one has with the Agency. It is a love hate relationship perpetually that she captures. From the very get go, recruitment and benign instructions starts candidates off in a wilderness of mirrors. Self doubt, peer doubt, honor doubt. It is a life o......more