Topic: Central Intelligence Agency

Tom Clancy is well known for his expansive, best-selling collection of thrilling, suspenseful page-turners. The main character, Jack Ryan, is at the heart of the plot of "The Cardinal of the Kremlin," which serves as the sequel to "The Hunt for Red ...
Author Barry Eisler?s former employment by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has put him in the perfect position to write ? At the center of it all is Ben Treven, who?s just been bailed out of jail in Manila by his boss. ...
Police: Ga. author who claimed to be CIA assassin in book kills self in accidental shootingTo his wife and friends, Roland Haas was a patriotic hero who secretly risked his life for the U.S. government during the Cold War, yet critics denounced ...

Fate of ex-spies fascinates writer Keith Thomson

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Writer Keith Thomson was fascinated by the real story of an elderly man with Alzheimer's who shocked his family when he spoke fluently in other languages, giving away his past as a secret agent.Thomson, a former screenwriter who ...

Read Any Good Economics Books Lately?

Read Any Good Economics Books Lately?By Lance WinslowOkay, so the other day a good friend of my at our Think Tank asks me if I had read any good economic books lately, not a question anyone would generally ask, after all, why ...
At Book Convention in New York, Right-Wing Publishers Worry About FutureThere were books advocating the public role of Christianity and the soundness of the free market, an attack on the liberal "elite" by Laura Ingraham and a memoir by Lynne Cheney, wife ...