CIA

by Brian Freemantle

Is the CIA a failure, a success, a muddle or all three? The real CIA is an organizatiom that has oerformed some of its tasks far better---and some far worse---than any of us could imagine. Yet the lives of every American depend on how well the CIA does what it is supossed to do. Descriptions of some of the hair-raising CIA exploits such as assassination, poisoned cigarettes and mind-blowing drugs.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Aka John Maxwell, Jonathan Evans, Jack Winchester, Harry Asher and Richard Gant.

Brian Freemantle [b. 1936] is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. Charlie M (1977) introduced the world to Charlie Muffin and won Freemantle international recognition—he would go on to publish fourteen titles in the series.

Freemantle has written dozens of other novels, including two featuring Sebastian Holmes, an illegitimate son of Sherlock Holmes, and the Cowley and Danilov series, about an American FBI agent and a Russian militia detective who work together to comabt organized crime in the post-Cold War world. Freemantle lives and works in London, Englad.