This time I have a very interesting proposition for you to read – “Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA” by Amaryllis Fox. This is the story of a woman who devoted a large part of her life to serving the CIA. The author tells us about her whole life, we meet her as a little girl. We follow her and her upbringing. We can look at what made her one day the secret service recruited her…

I will start by writing a few words about the author and the main character of the book. Amaryllis Fox, she was an undercover CIA agent. After finishing her field work, she began reporting on current events and conducting analyses for CNN, National Geographic, Al-Jazera, BBC and many other world media. She also appears in numerous speeches at various events and universities and talks about peace efforts. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughters. Amaryllis did not immediately know who she wanted to become in the future. First she started studying at Oxford, then she worked in a humanitarian organization. A breakthrough in her life came when her mentor and friend bent. Then she decided to explore terrorism and slowly learn how to fight it. In order to put her plan into practice, she begins studies related to the subject she is interested in and is recruited to the agency.

She is a very ambitious student and manages to teach and train to the max at the same time. After graduation, she is sent to the so-called Farm, where she undergoes a murderous six-month training to prepare her for fieldwork. There she learns how to survive without anyone else’s help, being dependent only on herself and the knowledge and skills gained during this training. Then the agent is assigned to a specific task, must impersonate someone else and start acting. Contrary to what many people may think, this is not a job where you are constantly in action, on the front line. These are very tedious, patient and dangerous tasks, because if someone discovers that you are a secret agent, they will kill you without blinking.

Reading the heroine’s story page after page, we find out what her life was like. It seems to me that one of the hardest things a secret agent has to face is the double life he leads. They can’t reveal their identity to anyone, even their closest family. They have to keep making up new stories and excuses to conceal what they really do, all for their own good. Because if something goes wrong, they can be put in danger, or put the good of the state at risk.

The book is really interesting and worth recommending, only that after reading it I started to think whether it is true. Yes, I know it was written by a real former CIA agent. But did she write the truth, the truth itself and only the truth? If you think more deeply, if the whole CIA service is based on secrets, can you be sure you can tell them when you’re done? For example, if the information reaches the people that Fox has worked with under cover, they might get nervous that they have been deceived and seek revenge. I wonder if the Agency has agreed to this publication? Maybe she thought there wasn’t enough detail here to harm the organization. I don’t know, maybe I’m looking for a second bottom and making up too much. In fact, even if the book is only partially true, or true in its entirety, but not much detail, I think it’s still worth reading. It’ll be a nice jump and a chance to learn the story of a really fascinating and brave woman who wasn’t afraid to risk her life for the sake of other people

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