Seven-time New York Times bestselling author John Weisman is one of a select company of authors to have their books on both the Times nonfiction and fiction bestseller lists. He pioneered coverage of Naval Special Warfare when he co-authored the number one New York Times bestseller Rogue Warrior, the story of Richard Marcinko and the creation of SEAL Team 6, and then conceived, created, developed, and wrote eight bestselling Rogue fictional sequels. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Seymour Hersh praised his 2004 novel Jack in the Box as "the insider's insider spy novel." Weisman's CIA short stories were chosen for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories in 1997 and 2003. His most recent CIA short fiction appears in Agents of Treachery. He reviews books on intelligence and military affairs for the Washington Times, and his analysis has appeared in AFIO's periodical Intelligencer. John Weisman lives sin the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
Jack in the Box: A Shadow War Thriller
by John Weisman
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9780062040190
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date: 06/14/2011
- Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 448
- Sales rank: 172,104
- File size: 2 MB
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From a bestselling author with intimate knowledge of CIA tradecraft comes an electrifying novel of terrifying possibilities –– a story of betrayal and secrets that could implode America's war on terrorism ... and a nightmarish conspiracy firmly rooted in the very highest levels of our nation's government.
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Weisman, coauthor with Richard Marcinko of the Rogue Warrior series, continues his solo work after SOAR with this instructive novel of friendship and betrayal in the shadow world of modern espionage. Veteran CIA operative Sam Waterman has been cashiered for allowing his chief agent, Russian general Pavel Baranov, to be killed moments after showing Sam documents pointing to the existence of a mole at the highest levels of American government. The Russian's death wasn't Sam's fault, but tell that to the gutless CIA bosses who have inherited control of that much-reduced agency. After several years of retirement, Sam is taken by former prot g Michael O'Neill to the country house of U.S. senator T. Randall Arthur to confront Edward Lee Howard, a CIA officer who had defected to the KGB. Howard wants to come back home and claims he has evidence that proves the White House knew about al-Qaeda's 9/11 plans seven weeks before these events occurred. When Sam decides to get tough with the defector, Howard flees, returns to Russia and is killed. The venue shifts back and forth between Moscow, Paris and Washington, D.C., as Sam tries to sort out the good guys from the bad, indulge in a romantic relationship and save his own skin. What sets this novel apart from other espionage thrillers is the density of spy lore. The pages are larded with footnotes, Russian words and phrases, references to historical cases, anecdotes, trade craft instruction and even blacked out words for added veracity. In the end, the identity of both the mole and Sam's betrayer will surprise few veteran thriller readers, but seldom has there been a fictional look at the subject that packs in so much fascinating insider information while still maintaining an engrossing story line and interesting characters. Agent, Robert Barnett. (June) Forecast: Plenty of readers were happy to see Weisman go solo. His readership should grow with this high-caliber second outing and future installments: a sequel is all but promised in the last lines of the book. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
While there is nothing nostalgic about this spy thriller, it hearkens back to the best of the Cold War's covert special operations and will keep readers on the edge of their easy chairs. Coauthor of the "Rogue Warrior" series and author of four earlier novels about CIA tradecraft (e.g., Soar), Weisman conjures up a duo of moles feeding U.S. secrets to Moscow. A retired CIA agent catches a whiff when an influential senator engages him to negotiate with a defector. Skilled and implacable, the agent recruits his own home team of helpers to tease out solid facts from the guile. Readers familiar with CIA lore will relish the characterization of the agency as a declawed creature of the bureaucrats, and the international venues of Washington, DC, Moscow, and Paris will be instantly recognizable to the genre's fans. For most popular fiction collections.-Barbara Conaty, Falls Church, VA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.