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Henry A. Crumpton's memoir covers a 24-year CIA career that ran from Cold War case officer work in Africa to running the agency's Afghanistan campaign after 9/11. It is part memoir, part argument: he makes the case for human intelligence and covert action over satellites and drones, and he is blunt about the bureaucracy that slows both. Readers who want spy tradecraft and first-hand history get plenty; those looking for a pure action narrative will find long stretches on management and policy. It sits alongside memoirs like Tenet's and Baer's but is more focused on the craft of espionage itself.
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Reviewers generally rate the book highly for its inside view of CIA operations and its plain-spoken defense of human intelligence. Some find the policy passages slow and the self-assessment generous.