Synopses & Reviews
In the highest reaches of the United States government, someone is betraying America's secrets.
Former CIA Moscow station chief Sam Waterman is drawn into an astonishing maze of deception when he is called on to debrief the legendary traitor Edward Lee Howard. The only CIA officer ever to defect to the KGB, Howard has decided to come home and come clean. Or has he? He makes the stunning allegation that American intelligence, distracted by the war on terror, has been penetrated by high-level moles. If true, the government and the intelligence community would be thrown into chaos. But before Waterman can verify any of it, Howard is found murdered.
Desperate, Waterman scours his old haunts in Moscow, Paris, and Washington, D.C. As he delves deeper and begins to unravel a mind-bending conspiracy, his old friends -- and old enemies -- turn up dead. Through it all he begins to realize that the new CIA is nothing like the old, that truth is relative, and honor has become an afterthought.
Filled with cutting-edge tradecraft and based on actual CIA operations, Jack in the Box goes deep inside the American intelligence community as few novels ever have.
Review
“The insiders insider spy novel: full of tricks of the trade, and characters that are real and cutting edge.” Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning International reporter
Synopsis
Weisman's next novel, an international shadow war thriller, JACK IN THE BOX: a chilling portrait of a highly placed mole and a conspiracy to penetrate and subvert U.S. intelligence.
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Weisman's latest novel--an international shadow war thriller--is a chilling portrait of a highly placed mole and a conspiracy to penetrate and subvert U.S. intelligence.
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The insider s insider spy novel: full of tricks of the trade, and characters that are real and cutting edge.
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From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "SOAR" comes this grippingly authentic novel of terrorism, CIA tradecraft, and deadly betrayal.
About the Author
Seven-time New York Times bestselling author John Weisman is one of a select company of authors to have their books on both the Times nonfiction and fiction bestseller lists. He pioneered coverage of Naval Special Warfare when he co-authored the number one New York Times bestseller Rogue Warrior, the story of Richard Marcinko and the creation of SEAL Team 6, and then conceived, created, developed, and wrote eight bestselling Rogue fictional sequels. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Seymour Hersh praised his 2004 novel Jack in the Box as "the insider's insider spy novel." Weisman's CIA short stories were chosen for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories in 1997 and 2003. His most recent CIA short fiction appears in Agents of Treachery. He reviews books on intelligence and military affairs for the Washington Times, and his analysis has appeared in AFIO's periodical Intelligencer. John Weisman lives sin the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.