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Mexico City was the Casablanca of the Cold War—a hotbed of spies, revolutionaries, and assassins. The CIA’s station there was the front line of the US’s fight against international communism. And its undisputed spymaster was Winston Mackinley Scott. This traces Scott’s remarkable career from his humble origins in rural Alabama to wartime G-man to OSS London operative, to right-hand man of CIA Director Allen Dulles, to his remarkable reign for more than a decade as virtual proconsul in Mexico.

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�A literary triumph that uncovers some of the darkest secrets of state while also revealing the human cost of a life led in service to that secrecy.�--Nina Burleigh, author of A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer �Every decade or so, a talented writer provides a genuinely new glimpse into the CIA�s shadowy history. Morley's account of legendary spymaster Winston Scott chronicles a life led in secret, stretching from the agency's founding through Scott's tenure as station chief in Mexico City. Morley tells this story with literary energy and an eye for the dark moments when intelligence stops making sense.�--Thomas Powers, author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA �Here is a rare thing, a biography of a C.I.A. chief that neither dodges shameful truths nor throws gratuitous mud. Packed, to boot, with genuine revelations about the crime of the century--the assassination of President Kennedy. A tour-de-force!�--Anthony Summers, author of Not in Your Lifetime A literary triumph that uncovers some of the darkest secrets of state while also revealing the human cost of a life led in service to that secrecy. --Nina Burleigh, author of A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer Every decade or so, a talented writer provides a genuinely new glimpse into the CIA's shadowy history. Morley's account of legendary spymaster Winston Scott chronicles a life led in secret, stretching from the agency's founding through Scott's tenure as station chief in Mexico City. Morley tells this story with literary energy and an eye for the dark moments when intelligence stops making sense. --Thomas Powers, author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA Here is a rare thing, a biography of a C.I.A. chief that neither dodges shameful truths nor throws gratuitous mud. Packed, to boot, with genuine revelations about the crime of the century--the assassination of President Kennedy. A tour-de-force! --Anthony Summers, author of Not in Your Lifetime

A literary triumph that uncovers some of the darkest secrets of state while also revealing the human cost of a life led in service to that secrecy. --<b>Nina Burleigh</b>, author of <i>A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer</i> Every decade or so, a talented writer provides a genuinely new glimpse into the CIA's shadowy history. Morley's account of legendary spymaster Winston Scott chronicles a life led in secret, stretching from the agency's founding through Scott's tenure as station chief in Mexico City. Morley tells this story with literary energy and an eye for the dark moments when intelligence stops making sense. --<b>Thomas Powers</b>, author of <i>The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA</i> Here is a rare thing, a biography of a C.I.A. chief that neither dodges shameful truths nor throws gratuitous mud. Packed, to boot, with genuine revelations about the crime of the century--the assassination of President Kennedy. A tour-de-force! --<b>Anthony Summers</b>, author of <i>Not in Your Lifetime</i>

-A literary triumph that uncovers some of the darkest secrets of state while also revealing the human cost of a life led in service to that secrecy.---Nina Burleigh, author of A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer -Every decade or so, a talented writer provides a genuinely new glimpse into the CIA's shadowy history. Morley's account of legendary spymaster Winston Scott chronicles a life led in secret, stretching from the agency's founding through Scott's tenure as station chief in Mexico City. Morley tells this story with literary energy and an eye for the dark moments when intelligence stops making sense.---Thomas Powers, author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA -Here is a rare thing, a biography of a C.I.A. chief that neither dodges shameful truths nor throws gratuitous mud. Packed, to boot, with genuine revelations about the crime of the century--the assassination of President Kennedy. A tour-de-force!---Anthony Summers, author of Not in Your Lifetime

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Jefferson Morley, formerly the ""World Opinion Roundup"" columnist for washingtonpost.com, is a veteran Washington journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Review of Books, Readers Digest, Slate, Salon, and other national publications.

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