A Spy at Home
A Spy at Home
Joseph Rinaldo (author)
Product Description
Oversight for the CIA? Are you kidding? Once the CIA receives money from Congress they can spend it without answering to anyone. Everyone in Congress, and even the President, wants deniability.
I worked for the CIA and personally wasted tens of millions funding rebellions in African countries hoping to put in new governments sympathetic to the good ol' US of A. Wasted your money is what I did, and I got sick of it, so I stole over nine million dollars. The money should have gone to fund a coup, but it was obviously going to fail, so I kept the dough. You, the reader, can decide if I'm a villain with evil intent, a hero with altruistic motives, or a regular guy sick of working for peanuts in a dangerous environment.
Back at home… My wife, Louisa, and I looked forward to our golden years being luxuriously comfortable and opulently relaxed. Unfortunately, we weren't together long enough. Without Louisa I have to learn all that she knew about caring for Noah, our mentally retarded son. After a life of planning for contingencies, dealing with the possibility that I might die before Noah is destroying me. Who will care for my son when I've spent a life out of the country and don't have anyone to lean on back home?
Product Details
Ebook
File Size: 293 KB
Language: English
ASIN: B0033WSVVC
Available at Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble and Smashwords.
Review
The Inscrutable Life of a Spy
By Citizen John
The Number One lesson for a band, it is said, is to get off stage while the audience still wants you. A Spy At Home is like a Grisham novel exiting stage right just as the subconscious mind tells you this is not really fiction. I’m ready to read more by Joseph Rinaldo.
Spies like Garrison, the protagonist, have a tendency to become their legend, their claimed background or biography. They support it by documentation, memorization and years of life experience. They live what they project. One of Garrison’s tradecrafts is moving and hiding large funds clandestinely. However, Garrison assumes caregiver responsibilities and that changes everything.
I was unsure whether Garrison is an unusually caring man or if so much of his time was window dressing. He could not easily have selected a better cover story to convince observers that what they are observing
is genuine. My suspicions were confirmed that there would be a wet job well into the approximately 125-page story. Even now I think about this story and wonder where reality ends and fiction begins.
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