A Conversation With Chris Whipple

摘要

Why this book? Except for president, perhaps no job is more consequential than CIA director. He or she serves as the president's eyes and ears when history-altering decisions are made. But The Spymasters is also the story of a rogues gallery of charactersthat John le Carre could not dream up: from Richard Helms, the James Bond-like director who, martini in one hand and cigarette in the other, faced down Richard Nixon over Watergate; to Gina Haspel, the first woman to rise to become CIA director from stints as a covert operative in Africa, head of an infamous CIA black site, and London Station Chief-only to report to a president who reviles the agency as a "deep state" bent on bringing him down.