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    Loose Lips
    Loose Lips
    Loose Lips
    Audiobook7 hours

    Loose Lips

    Written by Claire Berlinski

    Narrated by Cynthia Holloway

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    After sending her résumé to the CIA on a whim, New Yorker Selena Keller is contacted by an Agency recruiter, who asks her how she would feel about convincing another human being to commit treason. Despite her checkered past, Selena passes the background investigation and a battery of bizarre aptitude tests. Living under cover as a government budget analyst, she begins her education in espionage at the Farm, the CIA's covert facility.

    All CIA officers must survive a demanding training program, and it is there that Selena becomes romantically involved with Stan, a brilliant but darkly paranoid fellow student with presidential ambitions. What happens next is a fascinating inside portrait of the Agency—how spies are recruited, how they are trained, who they meet, where they go, and most important . . . what happens when they fall in love, and begin spying on one another.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543611854
    Loose Lips
    Author

    Claire Berlinski

    Claire Berlinski is the author of Loose Lips and the nonfiction journalistic exposé Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too. Born in California, she received her undergraduate degree in modern history and her doctorate in international relations from Balliol College at Oxford University. Like the heroine of Lion Eyes, she divides her time between Paris and Istanbul, where she lives with photojournalist David Gross and a menagerie of adopted stray animals.

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    • 5/5
      I ws completely absorbed by this novel which is a lightly disguised account of what it is like to join the CIA and go through their rigourous training system. As a non US citizen I read some of the views (not, I feel sure, those of the author's) about the success of their covert operations like many in the UK with an up-raised eyebrow and an amount of sceptiscim. When I was a child in central Africa, everyone knew who the local CIA agent was, even though he (accompanied by his wife) he was posing as an architect. They stood out like a sore thumb! And the wife gave my mum a brilliant recipe for Curried Chicken and Apple Soup which I often serve ! Actually this book made me really think about the morality of espionage, what it does it do to the spy?, do you get the information you REALLY need, what IS truth?Pease will Claire Berlinski write a sequel soon!
    • 1/5
      Summary on the back reads like this will be a juicy, entertaining novel, but the book fails to deilver anything, no conclusion to the questions & situations that occur!