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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 16,142 ratings — published 2007
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cia)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,600 ratings — published 2004
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cia)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,049 ratings — published 2015
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as cia)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,126 ratings — published 2019
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cia)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,511 ratings — published 2019
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cia)
avg rating 4.61 — 20,576 ratings — published 2020
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as cia)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,150 ratings — published 1998
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cia)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,202 ratings — published 1986
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as cia)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,674 ratings — published 2018
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cia)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,991 ratings — published 2019
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as cia)
avg rating 4.38 — 752 ratings — published 1972
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cia)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,370 ratings — published 2021
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cia)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,807 ratings — published 2013
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cia)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,718 ratings — published 2012
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cia)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,146 ratings — published 2003
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cia)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,262 ratings — published 2002
The Art of Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 23 times as cia)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,277 ratings — published 2012
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cia)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,163 ratings — published 2011
The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cia)
avg rating 3.82 — 358 ratings — published 1995
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as cia)
avg rating 4.07 — 757 ratings — published
Washington Bullets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as cia)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,596 ratings — published 2020
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as cia)
avg rating 3.97 — 766 ratings — published 1999
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as cia)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,750 ratings — published 2024
Red Sparrow (Red Sparrow Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as cia)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,447 ratings — published 2013
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as cia)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,026 ratings — published 2013
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cia)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,225 ratings — published 1987
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cia)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,195 ratings — published 2014
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as cia)
avg rating 3.97 — 406 ratings — published 2016
The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as cia)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,257 ratings — published 2017
Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cia)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,300 ratings — published 1985
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cia)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,273 ratings — published 1982
American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as cia)
avg rating 4.25 — 104,039 ratings — published 2010
Memorial Day (Mitch Rapp, #7)
by (shelved 16 times as cia)
avg rating 4.33 — 53,825 ratings — published 2004
First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cia)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,906 ratings — published 2005
The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cia)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,111 ratings — published 2000
Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cia)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,416 ratings — published 2008
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cia)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,870 ratings — published 2003
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cia)
avg rating 3.97 — 210 ratings — published 1991
The CIA And The Cult Of Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cia)
avg rating 3.92 — 347 ratings — published 1974
Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cia)
avg rating 4.20 — 365 ratings — published 1998
Act of Treason (Mitch Rapp, #9)
by (shelved 14 times as cia)
avg rating 4.32 — 55,374 ratings — published 2006
Consent to Kill (Mitch Rapp, #8)
by (shelved 14 times as cia)
avg rating 4.41 — 53,874 ratings — published 2005
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as cia)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,136 ratings — published 2020
EVO (Kindle, Nook, Kobo, ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as cia)
avg rating 4.03 — 907 ratings — published 2018
The Last Man (Mitch Rapp, #13)
by (shelved 13 times as cia)
avg rating 4.37 — 42,420 ratings — published 2012
Kill Shot (Mitch Rapp, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as cia)
avg rating 4.33 — 62,002 ratings — published 2012
Separation of Power (Mitch Rapp, #5)
by (shelved 13 times as cia)
avg rating 4.33 — 53,182 ratings — published 2001
The Third Option (Mitch Rapp, #4)
by (shelved 13 times as cia)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,863 ratings — published 2000
Extreme Measures (Mitch Rapp, #11)
by (shelved 13 times as cia)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,506 ratings — published 2008
Protect and Defend (Mitch Rapp, #10)
by (shelved 13 times as cia)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,556 ratings — published 2007
“He checked out his surrounding. More books. A drinking fountain. A poster showing a guy slam-dunking a basketball with one hand and holding a book in the other, urging kids to READ! Weird, thought Steve. How can he even see the hoop?
...
You see, Steven, Librarians are the most elite, best trained secret force in the United States of America. Probably in the world."
"No way."
"Yes way."
"What about the FBI?"
"Featherweights."
"The CIA?"
Mackintosh snorted. "Don't make me laugh. Those guys can't even dunk a basketball andd read a book at the same time.”
― The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
...
You see, Steven, Librarians are the most elite, best trained secret force in the United States of America. Probably in the world."
"No way."
"Yes way."
"What about the FBI?"
"Featherweights."
"The CIA?"
Mackintosh snorted. "Don't make me laugh. Those guys can't even dunk a basketball andd read a book at the same time.”
― The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
“Second thoughts? About the Squad?"
She nodded.
"I'm starting to think the CIA is seriously deranged for letting us do this," I told her, "but that doesn't mean I don't want to do it." I paused. "Actually, the fact that we probably shouldn't be doing this kind of makes me want to do it more."
Zee snorted. "Adrenaline junkie," she accused.”
― Killer Spirit
She nodded.
"I'm starting to think the CIA is seriously deranged for letting us do this," I told her, "but that doesn't mean I don't want to do it." I paused. "Actually, the fact that we probably shouldn't be doing this kind of makes me want to do it more."
Zee snorted. "Adrenaline junkie," she accused.”
― Killer Spirit
