Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story

By Jack Devine

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story (2014) is a memoir by CIA officer Jack Devine, written with Vernon Loeb. Devine recounts thirty-two years in the clandestine service, from Chile in the 1970s to the covert war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and later counterterror work. He describes how operations were planned and the limits of what covert action can achieve.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is Jack Devine's "Good Hunting." Devine, a 32-year veteran of covert operations of the CIA gives that rear well written insider's account of the agency and its work around the world. A fascinating read.”