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Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

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11H 55min
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English
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Non-Fiction

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.

Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. Including his award-winning blog series "Letters from Loretto," Doing Time Like a Spy is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.

© 2019 HighBridge Audio (Audiobook): 9781684572311
© 2017 Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book (Ebook): 9781945572746

Release date

Audiobook: 14 May 2019
Ebook: 12 July 2017

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