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Breaking Cover

My Secret Life in the CIA and What it Taught Me About What's Worth Fighting For

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Breaking Cover

By: Michele Rigby Assad
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The CIA is looking for walking contradictions. Recruiters seek people who can keep a secret, yet pull classified information out of others; who love their country, but are willing to leave it behind to head into dangerous places; who live double lives, but can be trusted with some of the nation's most highly sensitive tasks.

Michele Rigby Assad was one of those people.

As a CIA agent, Michele soon found that working undercover was an all-encompassing job. The threats were real. The mission was a perilous one. Trained as a counterterrorism expert, 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 the most treacherous areas of the Middle East. But deep inside, Michele wondered: Could she really do this job? Was she in the right place at the right time, or had she misunderstood what she thought was God's calling on her life? Did she have what it would take to survive?

The answer came when Michele faced a life-or-death choice - one that had secretly 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 incredible struggle; of thwarted plans and expectations; and most of all, of discovering a faith greater than all her fears.

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Michelle kept me on the edge of my feet. Her story is intriguing and inspiring. I finished the book feeling inspired to do more with my life!

Amazing and Fascinating!

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I cannot begin to describe on how emotional moved I am by this book. Thank you, Michelle, for sharing your story. I’ve inspired me to do more with my life and get of the X.

Life altering book

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This was a story worth telling but it is not written well. It is repetitive, full of cliches (religious and otherwise) and much too self-conscious. I finished it since it was for book club but turned it off several times because It was so annoying.

Good story, bad book

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Very interesting story and quite different than expected. Held my attention the entire time and great to know people like this exist in the world.

Definitely worth a listen.

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If you could sum up Breaking Cover in three words, what would they be?

Amazing what this woman accomplished in the CIA after thinking everyone else was smarter than she was. Trusting always in God for his work in her life. Working together with her husband in some of the worst places and conditions in the world.

What does Michele Rigby Assad bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Having felt many times that I wasn't as smart as other people after starting work in a man's field and succeeding. Knowing that other women have felt the same.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes

Fascinating true story.

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The author was a CIA case officer in Iraq and other dangerous places and did an incredible job in that role serving our country, so I don't want to be too harsh.I have the utmost respect for her and her husband and enormous gratitude to them both for their service.
Most of the story is very interesting. However, especially towards the end,It just becomes far too religious for me. If this doesn't bother you, then it is a very interesting story.

Interesting story, but too religious

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An amazing testimony as to how God works in miraculous ways!!! Michele does a wonderful job of bringing to life her special journey.

So inspirational!! Moved to tears!!

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What a great story of a awesome life experiences. Never would have imagined a lake county Florida girl could archive so much! Mrs Assad your a great inspiration to us from lake county. Thank you for your service!

Wow great story from a local

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Assad shares experiences from her time in the CIA that most people wouldn’t expect based on the portrayal of the CIA in movies and other fiction books. The last third of the book is about how she used her unique skills and personality driven abilities to protect so many families from ISIS. What an eye opener. We can all reach our potential in different ways and that was a big message I got from this book!

What a life!

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My kind of read. I love reading books from people that were there.
You won't be regret this book.

Real warriors we never hear about!

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