Život v utajení - Příběh agentky CIA – Fox Amaryllis (2020)

Amaryllis Fox recounts in her fascinating memoirs her training and deployment in an elite CIA covert operations unit, her eight years of pursuing dangerous international terrorists across sixteen countries, as well as her marriage and the birth of her first daughter during the time she was still working undercover. The book, Life in Disguise, is an exceptional testimony to a life dedicated to service, to passion, and to almost incomprehensible courage. At the same time, it tells an intimate, raw, and intricate story about human relationships, love, and friendship. This memoir by the talented debut author is a must-read. After studying international law and theology at Oxford, Amaryllis was accepted into Georgetown University in Washington, where she created an algorithm that predicted the likelihood of a terrorist organization's cell activating anywhere in the world. At the age of twenty-one, she joined the CIA. Initially, she analyzed secret dispatches and processed them into reports for the President of the United States. She later worked in the Iraqi section of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, where her task was to locate hostages kidnapped by al-Qaeda. A year later, she was already striving to prevent weapons of mass destruction from falling into the hands of terrorists, traveling around the world and negotiating about...