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The Old Spook

Charles Ameringer

Why we're reading this: If you like all things CIA, you'll enjoy "The Old Spook," a novel that follows the forty-year career (195…more
[close] If you like all things CIA, you'll enjoy "The Old Spook," a novel that follows the forty-year career (1951-1991) of a fictional CIA operative (spook), who reflects on his career and makes that argument that his service was honorable. For more info, click on the cover image here; to read an excerpt, search bookdaily or Amazon.com.

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Feb 25, 2013 Dave rated it liked it

I really enjoyed The Old Spook. It depicts the adventures of a fictional CIA covert field operative in the Latin American section; first as a CIA employe, then as a private investigator and finally as a government contractor. The narrative's strength is that the adventures are real. Most of them were reported on the front pages of US newspapers from the 1954 coup in Guatemala to the first concerns in the 1990s that Aldrich Ames was a KGB mole. They include the Bay of Pigs debacle, the attempts o ...more

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Apr 02, 2014 S Thorpe rated it really liked it

This book brought back many memories for me. Although I did not work in the American hemisphere, I was well aware of many of the references to historical events. I enjoyed following the main character traveling through time as he became immersed in all the covert activities The Company was involved in. Old spooks don't die, they just fade away into the crevice of history. ...more

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