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""Golden Voice Rudnicki takes Weiner's impeccable research and storytelling to near cinematic heights as he shares victories and losses by America's--and the world's--premier spy agency...It offers a real-life look at the work of spycraft...Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""Reminds us of the importance of the human element when it comes to high-stakes diplomacy and the life-and-death decisions on which our national security depends."" -- ""The Observer (London)"" ""Riveting...How Weiner persuaded so many people to talk on the record is a journalistic feat that should make The Mission impossible to dismiss."" -- ""Associated Press"" ""Takes us deep into that covert world, exposing its scandals and chronicling the agency's little-known successes."" -- ""Mother Jones"" ""The most important CIA intelligence activities of this century are examined here, fairly and in lively prose."" -- "" SpyTalk"" ""This masterful new history should be required reading...Astonishing."" -- "" Kirkus Reviews (starred review)""

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Tim Weiner has won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on American national security and the National Book Award for Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. At the New York Times, he covered the CIA in Washington and conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and many other nations. Legacy of Ashes was acclaimed as one of the year's best books by The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, Time, and many other publications. His five other books include the national bestseller Enemies: A History of the FBI. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Kate Doyle, an expert in human rights and freedom of information. Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices.

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