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The Wolf and the Watchman : A Father a Son and the Cia by Scott C. Johnson (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Growing up, Scott C. Johnson always suspected that his father was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, one of the CIA's most trusted officers. At first the secret was thrilling. But over time Scott began to have doubts. How could a man so rigorously trained to deceive and manipulate simply turn off those skills at home? His father had been living a double life for so long that his lies were hard to separate from the truth. When Scott embarked on a career as a foreign correspondent, he found himself returning to many of the troubled countries of his youth. In the dusty streets of Pakistan and Afghanistan, amid the cold urbanity of Yugoslavia, and down the mysterious alleys of Mexico City, he came face to face with his father's murky past--and his own complicity in it. Scott learned that his chosen profession was not so different from his father's: they both worked to gain people's trust and to uncover their secrets. The only difference was what they did with that information. In the aftermath of 9/11, father and son found themselves on assignment in Afghanistan and the Middle East, one as a CIA contractor, the other as a reporter for Newsweek. Suddenly, an unsettled Scott was forced to keep his father's secret all over again. As their professional lives collided, Scott and his father inched toward a personal reckoning, struggling to overcome a lifetime of suspicion and deception. The Wolf and the Watchman is a provocative, meditative account of truth and duplicity, of manipulation and loyalty. It is also a moving, intensely personal portrait of a bond between father and son that endured in the shadow of one of the world's most secretive and unforgiving institutions. * PEN Center USA Award Finalist Reading group guide available.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393349438
ISBN-13
9780393349436
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Book Title
Wolf and the Watchman : a Father a Son and the Cia
Author
Scott C. Johnson
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Parenting / Fatherhood, Intelligence & Espionage, Personal Memoirs, Modern / 20th Century
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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8.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz

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Johnson's engrossing memoir, through the layers of subterfuge, uncovers many basic truths of familial conflict., This stunning memoir could be ripped from the pages of a John le Carr novel. . . . A fascinating and important book by one of the great American foreign correspondents of his generation., A beautifully written memoir, and a cautionary tale about double lives. . . . I couldn't put this book down., An enthralling look at a complicated father-son relationship and a painful investigation of the messiness of truth in journalism, intelligence ops, and life., Though there's plenty of covert action and espionage in this fabulous book, the real heft of it is in Johnson's moving account of his relationship with his father and how the secrets of the CIA affected that relationship., With rare emotional subtlety, and in finely etched prose worthy of Evelyn Waugh or Graham Greene, [Johnson] captures the perspectives of people on various sides of [a] bloody equation., This stunning memoir could be ripped from the pages of a John le Carré novel. . . . A fascinating and important book by one of the great American foreign correspondents of his generation., Gripping, emotional depictions of the conflicts that rage in the interior and exterior worlds of a spy--and of a journalist., [A] searingly honest memoir... [Johnson] deftly explores the eerie parallels between these professional worlds: the CIA case officer who labors to recruit sources to provide secret information to assist the United States in its pursuit of foreign policy objectives worldwide, and the journalist who also recruits inside sources, but ones who will speak for publication., A fine book of unusual honesty; he grapples with the nature of his beloved father's secret life and the profound consequences it has had in his own. This is an extraordinary story, astonishingly well-told., Brave and memorable . . . a rare glimpse into the private life of a spy that digs into the love, lies, and ambiguities between father and son.
Dewey Decimal
070.92
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
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