
American Spy
Wry Reflections on My Life in the CIA
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
3 months free
Buy for $20.00
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Christopher Lane
-
By:
-
H. K. Roy
This ain't your daddy's spy story. In a memoir written as a series of narrative vignettes, a former CIA operations officer recounts his years of danger, intrigue, and adventure.
This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life - and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet and Cuban spies, running "denied area" operations in Eastern Europe, hunting Bosnian War criminals, or providing actionable intelligence to US government and coalition forces in Iraq, Roy usually found himself at the right place at the right time.
Except when he didn't - like the time he stumbled into a life-threatening ambush by Iranian terrorists while dodging Serb snipers and shelling in Sarajevo. Eight summers later, caught in a blinding sandstorm between Amman and Baghdad, he learned his fate was in the hands of an Iraqi tribal chief who had just lost his entire family to a US airstrike in Ramadi, in a failed attempt to kill Saddam Hussein that had tragic consequences.
Combining dedication to duty with a maverick's disdain for bureaucracy, Roy makes it clear that he prefers foreign locales to Washington and thrives on the adrenaline rush that comes with danger. He also sheds much light on why intelligence is an essential component of national defense, even our very survival as a nation.
©2019 H. K. Roy (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. “Chapter 1: Betrayal in the Balkans” accounts originally published in and adapted from “Betrayal in the Balkans,” World & I Magazine, August 2001 “The Closer You Get,” track 1, on Alabama, The Closer You Get, RCA, 2000, compact disc, originally released in 1983. Used with permission by Easy Song Licensing.Listeners also enjoyed...




















People who viewed this also viewed...





Very insightful and entertaining
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Lots of interesting anecdotes. Entertaining.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Good until the 10 minute political rant
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Serious illness
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Going to need an updated Epilogue!
Spy Tales
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Eye opening, insightful and often hilarious.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
awesome account of cia officer listened happily
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Superb storytelling of a fascinating CIA career
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
interesting fascinating enjoyable, good listening
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Superbly written and narrated
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.