Jack Devine, a 32-year CIA veteran, joined the United States in 1967. His track record is impressive: the coup in Chile; Operation Cyclone during the Afghan adventure of the USSR in the 1980s; the hunt for drug dealer Pablo Escobar; exposing O. Ames and R. Hanssen, who spied for Russia ... Devine led a secret CIA operation involving thousands of agents in delicate missions around the world. He currently lives in New York, is a member of the United States Council on Foreign Relations, co-founder and president of the international consulting firm The Arkin Group. Jack Devine's book is a fascinating story about the CIA's "successful hunt" (US interests above all else) in the most important parts of the world, about the backstage of covert operations during the Cold War. But this is not the only thing that interests readers. Who makes the decisions that determine victory in the "big game of superpowers"? What traits should intelligence professionals have? Do they have a "code of honor"? After all, these are acts for which they are ready to pay with their lives ... It should be noted that immediately after its publication, this book became a bestseller.
