Direct Action
By John Weisman
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In this compulsive page-turner, six-time New York Times bestselling author John Weisman blows the lid off one of Washington's deepest real-world secrets. The CIA, currently incapable of performing its core mission of supplying critical and time-sensitive human-based intelligence for the global war on terror, must now outsource the work to private contractors. Drawing on real-world crises and actual CIA operations, Direct Action takes readers deep inside this new and unreported covert warfare that is being fought on a daily basis by anonymous shadow warriors all across the globe.
Racing against the clock and shuttling between Washington, Paris, and the Middle East, one of those shadow warriors, former CIA case officer Tom Stafford, must slip below the radar to uncover, target, and neutralize a deadly al-Qa'ida bombmaker before the assassin can launch simultaneous multiple attacks against America and the West. And as if that weren't enough, Stafford must simultaneously open a second front and mount a clandestine war against the CIA itself, because for mysterious and seemingly inexplicable reasons the people at the very top of the Central Intelligence Agency want him to fail.
The characters and operations in Direct Action are drawn from true-life CIA personnel and their real-world missions. With Direct Action, John Weisman confirms once again Joseph Wambaugh's claim that "nobody writes better about the dark and dirty world of the CIA and black ops."
John Weisman
Seven-time New York Times bestselling author John Weisman is one of a select company of authors to have their books on both the Times nonfiction and fiction bestseller lists. He pioneered coverage of Naval Special Warfare when he co-authored the number one New York Times bestseller Rogue Warrior, the story of Richard Marcinko and the creation of SEAL Team 6, and then conceived, created, developed, and wrote eight bestselling Rogue fictional sequels. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Seymour Hersh praised his 2004 novel Jack in the Box as ""the insider's insider spy novel."" Weisman's CIA short stories were chosen for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories in 1997 and 2003. His most recent CIA short fiction appears in Agents of Treachery. He reviews books on intelligence and military affairs for the Washington Times, and his analysis has appeared in AFIO's periodical Intelligencer. John Weisman lives sin the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
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Reviews for Direct Action
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoyed this book, obviously written with a realism seldom seen in this genre. As a retired member of the intelligence
community, I heartily recommend John Weismann - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My first reading experience of the author's numerous works in the genre. It is one of very few books I found myself unable to predict as the story (overlapping and intertwining stories is a better description) progressed, which is a pretty significant point to make for anyone else who can often see where things are going and what is likely to happen to one or more characters. If you are a fan of clandestine operations and intelligence community tales of the wars we never see, this is a book to add to your list.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Simply stated...the story line stayed the course. Well done, sir.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fascinating. Makes you think .... Umm ... and wonder is it real!!!
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