Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and What It Taught Me about What's Worth Fighting for - Hardcover

Michele Rigby Assad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1496419596 ISBN 13: 9781496419590

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

A real-life, can't-put-down spy memoir.<br/>The CIA is looking for walking contradictions. Recruiters seek out potential agents who can keep a secret yet pull classified information out of others; who love their country but are willing to leave it behind for dangerous places; who live double lives, but can be trusted with some of the nation's most highly sensitive tasks.<br/><br/>Michele Rigby Assad was one of those people.<br/><br/>As a CIA agent and a counterterrorism expert, Michele soon found that working undercover was an all-encompassing job. The threats were real; the assignments perilous. Michele spent over a decade in the agency--a woman leading some of the most highly skilled operatives on the planet, secretly serving in some of the most treacherous areas of the Middle East, and at risk as a target for ISIS. But deep inside, Michele wondered: Could she really do this job? Had she misunderstood what she thought was God's calling on her life? Did she have what it would take to survive?<br/><br/>The answer came when Michele faced her ultimate mission, one with others' lives on the line--and it turned out to have been the plan for her all along. In Breaking Cover, Michele has at last been cleared to drop cover and tell her story: one of life-or-death stakes; of defeating incredible odds; and most of all, of discovering a faith greater than all her fears.

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From the Back Cover

When debriefing any jihadist, most agents have three handicaps:
We are Americans (strike one), nonbelievers (strike two), and CIA officers (strike three). As I prepared myself to walk in and meet Abu Muhammad for the first time, I knew I had a fourth handicap: I was a woman.

Breaking Cover is the explosive tell-all memoir of Michele Rigby Assad, an ex-counterterrorism expert for the CIA. From leading secret undercover missions in some of the world s most dangerous places to winning success in a male-dominated industry, Michele shows how ordinary people can do extraordinary things even in the unlikeliest of circumstances.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496419596
• ISBN 13: 9781496419590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272