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Undercover ; avoir vingt ans à la CIA
Amaryllis Fox
- Le Livre de Poche
- Documents
- 13 Janvier 2021
- 9782253101444
Pendant dix ans, Amaryllis Fox a vécu undercover. Pour sa famille et ses amis, elle était une marchande internationale d'art ethnique. En réalité, elle traquait les terroristes du monde entier pour l'unité opérationnelle la plus sélective de la CIA, celle des agents clandestins. Sur le terrain, elle a travaillé à démanteler des attaques et approché certains combattants ennemis pour tenter de les recruter en tant qu'informateurs. Elle est notamment la première femme à avoir donné naissance à une petite fille dans l'exercice de ses fonctions.
Undercover est son histoire, celle d'un parcours hors norme où se mêlent à parts égales courage, engagement et profonde humanité. Sincère et brillant, son témoignage exceptionnel est en cours d'adaptation pour la télévision.
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LIFE UNDERCOVER ; COMING OF AGE IN THE CIA
Amaryllis Fox
- Vintage Usa
- 29 Septembre 2020
- 9780525564089
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love ." -- The New York Times Amaryllis Fox''s riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world''s most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford studying theology and international law when her writing mentor Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, Fox applied to a master''s program in conflict and terrorism at Georgetown''s School of Foreign Service, where she created an algorithm that predicted, with uncanny certainty, the likelihood of a terrorist cell arising in any village around the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. Her first assignment was reading and analyzing hundreds of classified cables a day from foreign governments and synthesizing them into daily briefs for the president. Her next assignment was at the Iraq desk in the Counterterrorism center. At twenty-two, she was fast-tracked into advanced operations training, sent from Langley to "the Farm," where she lived for six months in a simulated world learning how to use a Glock, how to get out of flexicuffs while locked in the trunk of a car, how to withstand torture, and the best ways to commit suicide in case of captivity. At the end of this training she was deployed as a spy under non-official cover--the most difficult and coveted job in the field as an art dealer specializing in tribal and indigenous art and sent to infiltrate terrorist networks in remote areas of the Middle East and Asia. Life Undercover is exhilarating, intimate, fiercely intelligent--an impossible to put down record of an extraordinary life, and of Amaryllis Fox''s astonishing courage and passion.
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Do you have what it takes to stand between us and the enemy?
"I'm here to prevent a major and imminent attack. One that will kill children. I'm alone and operational in the country where my colleague was taken and beheaded, and every hour I'm delayed is another hour for something to go wrong - for an informant to disclose my location, for the source I'm meeting to cancel, for the attack to go boom. The fear injects my thoughts with venom." Amaryllis Fox was recruited by the CIA at the age of 21 in the aftermath of 9/11. After an intense training period - where she learns how to master a Glock, get out of flexicuffs while in the trunk of a car, withstand torture, and commit suicide in case of captivity - she is sent undercover to keep nuclear, biological and chemical weapons out of the hands of terror groups. Posing as an art dealer, she is sent on countless dangerous missions around the globe. Each time, the stakes become even higher and the risks more terrifying. Determined to stop the masterminds, Amaryllis's quest will almost destroy her, until she realises that the only way to actually defeat the enemy is to have the courage to sit across from them... and listen.
In this explosive first-hand account - filled with suspense and plot twists to rival Carrie Mathison in Homeland - Life Undercover is an edgy story of an undercover CIA operative, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists, using deception and disguises and dead drops in the night in order to protect our streets.
Revealed in never-before-seen detail, Amaryllis offers compelling insight that can only come from having fought on the front lines.
