Full name: The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives

Author: Ted Gup Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780307428196 9780385495417 0307428192 0385495412

In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty. Official CIA records only name thirty-five of them, however. Undeterred by claims that revealing the identities of these "nameless stars" might compromise national security, Ted Gup sorted through thousands of documents and interviewed over 400 CIA officers in his attempt to bring their long-hidden stories to light. The result of this extraordinary work of investigation is a surprising glimpse at the real lives of secret agents, and an unprecedented history of the most compelling-and controversial-department of the US government. From the Trade Paperback edition. Similar books: The Art of Intelligence by Henry A. Crumpton The man who kept the secrets by Thomas Powers The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence by Victor Marchetti The Craft of Intelligence by Allen W. Dulles Confessions of a Spy by Pete Earley From the Shadows by Robert M. Gates The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception by H. Keith Melton Wilderness of Mirrors by David C. Martin The Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman See No Evil by Robert Baer The Good Spy by Kai Bird Ike's Spies by Stephen E. Ambrose Veil by Bob Woodward The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez Inside the Company by Philip Agee America the Beautiful by Ben Carson Fear by Bob Woodward Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne The Amateur by Edward Klein No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin