The recruiter: spying and the lost art of American intelligence

Where have you gone, George Smiley?

Just another night . . .

The United States Intelligence Community, and where CIA fits

Where does our intelligence come from?

Hours and hours of routine, and a few moments of adrenaline

Welcome to the Directorate of Operations

In the beginning

"Typical" case officers

Intelligence wars

Finding and making case officers

Case officers who go bump in the night, and the not-so-good doctor

Of mice and men, and race and religion

The CIA on its downward journey

Working and playing well with other US agencies

The agent's wife

Loving and loathing within CIA and finding common ground with your agents

They don't have to like us . . . but they do need to trust us

Sexual dynamics

My gay best friend

The crisis of conscience

Families abroad and raising kids int he clandestine world

When good agents do bad things and calculating risk versus gain

A lifestyle not for the squeamish or faint of heart

Lost friends and comrades

Hard targets: "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's"

Humanity in all

When case officers grow up

When the party ends

Alex and the targeters

Modernization's continuing costs

Strategy, tactics, tools, and bloodlust

Transitioning into the future.