The Spymasters: How the CIA’s Directors Shape History and Guard the Future Audiobook (Free)

From the New York Times bestselling writer of The Gatekeepers, an extraordinary, behind-the-scenes take a look at what it’s like to run the world’s most effective intelligence agency—the CIA—and a sobering glimpse in the espionage and surveillance challenges of the future.

Just fourteen men and one female are alive today who have produced the life-and-death decisions that include working the world’s most powerful and influential intelligence assistance. With unprecedented, deep access to all these about The Spymasters: The way the CIA’s Directors Form History and Guard the Future people, Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that answers to the United States president only, but whose actions—spying, espionage, and covert action—take place on every continent.

Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency is a powerful player for the globe stage, operating largely in the shadows to protect American interests. For The Spymasters, Whipple executed extensive, exceptional interviews with just about any living CIA movie director, pulling back the curtain in the world’s top notch spy organizations and showing how the CIA partners—or clashes—with counterparts in Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. He addresses every topic from the influence of the Light House on intelligence activity to simmering problems in the centre East and Asia to rogue nuclear threats and cyberwarfare.

A revelatory look at the CIA’s impact across the globe, The Spymasters uncovers the within tales behind the CIA’s seven decades of activity and elicits predictions about which issues—and threats—will occupy the espionage and surveillance landscape of the future. Including eye-opening interviews with George Tenet, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, and David Patraeus, aswell as those who’ve simply lately departed the Agency, this is a timely, important, and important contribution to current occasions.