Amaryllis Fox

Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford studying theology and international law when her writing mentor Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, Fox applied to a master's program in conflict and terrorism at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, where she created an algorithm that predicted, with uncanny certainty, the likelihood of a terrorist cell arising in any village around the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. Her first assignment was reading and analyzing hundreds of classified cables a day from foreign governments and synthesizing them into daily briefs for the president. Her next assignment was at the Iraq desk in the Counterterrorism center. At twenty-two, she was fast-tracked into advanced operations training, sent from Langley to "the Farm," where she lived for six months in a simulated world learning how to use a Glock, how to get out of flexicuffs while locked in the trunk of a car, how to withstand torture, and the best ways to commit suicide in case of captivity. At the end of this training she was deployed as a spy under non-official cover--the most difficult and coveted job in the field as an art dealer specializing in tribal and indigenous art and sent to infiltrate terrorist networks in remote areas of the Middle East and Asia. Life Undercover is exhilarating, intimate, fiercely intelligent--an impossible to put down record of an extraordinary life, and of Amaryllis Fox's astonishing courage and passion.

Coming of Age in the CIA

Life Undercover

A Vida na Sombra, o fascinante livro de memórias de Amaryllis Fox, narra a história da sua formação e entrada para a unidade de operações clandestinas de elite da CIA, e dos oito anos que passou a dar caça aos terroristas mais perigosos do mundo em dezasseis países, assim como do seu casamento e do nascimento da primeira filha, enquanto trabalhava na sombra.Depois de estudar direito internacional e teologia na Universidade de Oxford, Amaryllis matriculou-se em Georgetown, onde criou um algoritmo que previa a probabilidade de uma célula terrorista perpetrar um ataque em qualquer parte do mundo. Aos vinte e um anos, foi recrutada pela CIA.A Vida na Sombra é um livro surpreendente, exaltante e impossível de pousar até à última página, um registo extraordinário de uma vida de serviço, paixão e coragem quase inimaginável. É também um livro de memórias íntimo, puro e estruturado em vários níveis sobre o matrimónio, a maternidade e o trabalho de uma vida. Uma autobiografia incontornável de uma nova e extremamente talentosa escritora.

A Vida na Sombra

An Amazon Best Book A Library Journal Best Book Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries. Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford, studying theology and international law when her writing mentor Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, Fox applied to a master's program in conflict and terrorism at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, where she created an algorithm that predicted, with uncanny certainty, the likelihood of a terrorist cell arising in any village around the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. At twenty-two, she was fast-tracked into advanced operations training, sent from Langley to "the Farm," where she lived for six months in a simulated world learning how to use a Glock, how to get out of flex-cuffs while locked in the trunk of a car, how to withstand torture, and the best ways to commit suicide in case of captivity. At the end of this training she was deployed as a spy under nonofficial cover--the most difficult and coveted job in the field--and sent to infiltrate terrorist networks in remote areas of the Middle East and Asia. Life Undercover is exhilarating, intimate, fiercely intelligent--an impossible-to-put-down record of an extraordinary life and of Amaryllis Fox's astonishing courage and passion.

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