The woman at the center of the Bush administration's CIA leak scandal breaks her silence about the case as she describes her role as an undercover CIA operative, her training and experiences, her efforts to protect her children in the aftermath of the leak, her determination to uncover the truth about the event that destroyed her career, and her battle with the CIA to reveal the truth. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.
Valerie Plame Wilson Boeken
Valerie Plame is een voormalig CIA-operatiefunctionaris wiens ervaringen haar in het centrum van wereldwijde discussies plaatsten. Deze publieke aandacht inspireerde haar om te schrijven, waarbij ze zich richtte op thema's als nationale veiligheid en het publieke leven. Haar schrijfstijl is direct en boeiend, wat haar achtergrond in veldwerk en het cruciale belang van precieze communicatie weerspiegelt.
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson has devoted her career to capturing Bhoot, the world’s most notorious nuclear arms dealer. Her mission is complicated by the murders of her assets, betrayed by a mole within her agency. After narrowly escaping a devastating explosion at the Louvre, she suspects Bhoot orchestrated the attack. However, when an unknown militant group claims responsibility and threatens more violence, she must reconsider her assumptions, especially when Bhoot contacts her to deny involvement and warns that a miniaturized nuclear device may be in more dangerous hands than his. Although she knows Bhoot is untrustworthy, Vanessa fears a new threat to global stability may have emerged. As her investigation brings her closer to identifying the mole and the terrorists’ true plans, she finds herself reluctantly forming a perilous alliance with one of the world’s most dangerous criminals—a man who has become her darkest obsession and possibly her savior. Moving swiftly from Paris to Amsterdam, Venice, and Istanbul, the story unfolds as a nerve-shattering, intricately woven thriller about the mission to capture a brilliant and elusive mastermind, marking an exhilarating new chapter in Vanessa Pierson's saga.
On July 6, 2003, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," was published in The New York Times, shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak disclosed that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative, leading to a federal investigation and the conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby. This incident prompted the Wilsons to file a civil suit against high-ranking Bush administration officials. While much has been written about the "Valerie Plame" saga, Valerie has remained largely silent until now. Some portrayals of her have been alarmingly accurate, highlighting the loss of privacy for the Wilsons, while others have misrepresented their integrity. Retiring from the CIA in January 2006, Valerie, as a wife, mother, and daughter of an Air Force colonel, now shares her story, detailing her training, experiences, and addressing questions about her covert status and responsibilities. Much of her story remains classified, but an afterword by national security reporter Laura Rozen offers additional context. This account reveals the profound personal and international repercussions of confronting power with truth.