The story of a CIA agent. New York Times bestseller.
In her fascinating memoir, Amaryllis Fox tells of her training and deployment in the CIA's elite covert operations unit, eight years of pursuing dangerous international terrorists in sixteen countries, as well as her marriage and the birth of her first daughter while still working undercover.
A Life Undercover is an extraordinary account of a life dedicated to service, of passion and of almost incomprehensible courage. At the same time, it tells an intimate, raw and intricate story about human relationships, love and friendship. This memoir by a gifted aspiring author is a must read. After studying international law and theology at Oxford, Amaryllis was recruited by Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where she created an algorithm to predict the likelihood of a terrorist cell being activated anywhere in the world.
At the age of 21, she joined the CIA. Initially, she analyzed secret dispatches and prepared outputs for the President of the United States. She subsequently worked in the Iraqi section of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, where she was tasked with locating captives kidnapped by al-Qaeda. A year later, she was working to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists, travelling around the world and negotiating chemical and biological weapons purchases with international black market traffickers. After completing rigorous espionage training, she was deployed to spy in a special covert mode in the most remote parts of North Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
