The topics I explore in my writing mirror a world that for a time I was honored to inhabit, that of special operators, intelligence analysts, paramilitary officers, contractors, and staff from what was then called the Special Activities Division of the CIA. My interest in what John le Carré termed the “secret world” began with my earliest memories as I watched the events of the Iranian Hostage Crisis unfold on television and in newspapers and magazines in November 1979. What happens in the secret world is often mirrored in fiction, and what happens in fiction can at times be mirrored in the
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