INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Rapid and exciting . . . Life Undercover reads as though a John le Carré persona landed in Eat Pray Love.” —The New York Times
Amaryllis Fox’s riveting memoir tells the tale of her ten years in essentially the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, looking the sector’s so much unhealthy terrorists in 16 nations even as marrying and giving beginning to a daughter
Amaryllis Fox was once in her ultimate yr as an undergraduate at Oxford finding out theology and global legislation while her writing mentor Daniel Pearl was once captured and beheaded. Galvanized by way of this brutality, Fox carried out to a grasp’s software in war and terrorism at Georgetown’s Faculty of Overseas Provider, the place she created an set of rules that anticipated, with uncanny walk in the park, the possibility of a terrorist cellular phone bobbing up in any village around the globe. At twenty-one, she was once recruited by way of the CIA. Her first challenge was once studying and examining masses of labeled cables an afternoon from Overseas governments and synthesizing them into day-to-day briefs for the president. Her subsequent challenge was once On the Iraq table within the Counterterrorism heart. At twenty-, she was once Rapid-tracked into complex operations coaching, despatched from Langley to “the Farm,” the place she lived for 6 months in a simulated international studying use a Glock, get out of flexicuffs even as locked within the trunk of a automotive, how to resist torture, and the most productive how you can dedicate suicide in case of captivity. On the finish of this coaching she was once deployed as a undercover agent underneath non-professional duvet–essentially the most tricky and coveted task within the box as an artwork broker that specialize in tribal and indigenous artwork and despatched to infiltrate terrorist networks in faraway spaces of the Center East and Asia.
Life Undercover is exhilarating, intimate, fiercely wise–an not possible to position down report of an unusual lifestyles, and of Amaryllis Fox’s unbelievable braveness and keenness.
