Kathleen Hagen's Reviews > The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story
The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story
by Robert Baer, Dayna Baer, Richard McGonagle
by Robert Baer, Dayna Baer, Richard McGonagle
Kathleen Hagen's review
bookshelves: 2011-nonfiction, 2011-audio-books
Apr 27, 11
bookshelves: 2011-nonfiction, 2011-audio-books
Read in March, 2011
The Company we Keep: a Husband and Wife’s True Life Spy Story, by Robert and Dayna Baer,narrated by the authors, produced by Random House Audio, downloaded from audible.com.
Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. But if his career was all that a spy might aspire to, his personal
life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice. Dayna Williamson thought of herself as just an ordinary California girl. But
she was always looking to get closer to the edge. When she joined the CIA, she was initially tasked with Agency background checks, but she quickly distinguished
herself as someone who could thrive in the field. Tapped to serve in some of the world's most dangerous places, she discovered an inner strength and resourcefulness
she'd never known - but she also came to see that the spy life exacts a heavy toll. When Bob and Dayna met on a mission in Sarajevo, it wasn't love at
first sight. But there was something there, a spark. And as the danger escalated and their affection for each other grew, they realized it was time to
leave "the Company," to somehow rediscover the people they'd once been. As worldly as they both were, the couple didn't realize at first that turning in
their Agency ID cards would not be enough to put their covert past behind. When they went to adopt a little girl in Pakistan, they had trouble getting the courts to agree to the adoption. They were pretty good narrators for their own book, but others might have handled emotions more expressively. It is my experience that a lot of authors who read their own books aloud have trouble expressing the emotions they write about so fluently.
Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. But if his career was all that a spy might aspire to, his personal
life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice. Dayna Williamson thought of herself as just an ordinary California girl. But
she was always looking to get closer to the edge. When she joined the CIA, she was initially tasked with Agency background checks, but she quickly distinguished
herself as someone who could thrive in the field. Tapped to serve in some of the world's most dangerous places, she discovered an inner strength and resourcefulness
she'd never known - but she also came to see that the spy life exacts a heavy toll. When Bob and Dayna met on a mission in Sarajevo, it wasn't love at
first sight. But there was something there, a spark. And as the danger escalated and their affection for each other grew, they realized it was time to
leave "the Company," to somehow rediscover the people they'd once been. As worldly as they both were, the couple didn't realize at first that turning in
their Agency ID cards would not be enough to put their covert past behind. When they went to adopt a little girl in Pakistan, they had trouble getting the courts to agree to the adoption. They were pretty good narrators for their own book, but others might have handled emotions more expressively. It is my experience that a lot of authors who read their own books aloud have trouble expressing the emotions they write about so fluently.
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