- Drug traffic, Conspiracies, United States Central Intelligence Agency, Fiction
An Historical account of the covert operations against the Soviet invasion of Afganistan in 1980's.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- George Crile III
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 550
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Audiofy/Blackstone, Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780802141248
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- Drug traffic
- Conspiracies
- United States Central Intelligence Agency
- Fiction
- United States Secret service
- American Military assistance
- History
- Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1989)
- United states, central intelligence agency
- Military assistance, american
- Afghanistan, history, soviet occupation, 1979-1989
- Arms transfers
“When Congressman Charlie Wilson set off for a weekend in Las Vegas on June 27, 1980, there was no confusion in his mind about why he had chosen to stay at Caesars Palace.”
George Crile was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and then attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve as a lance corporal from 1968 to 1974. After the war, he worked as a reporter in Washington, and as the Pentagon correspondent for Ridder Newspapers. He became the Washington editor of Harper’s magazine. His articles also appeared in Washington Monthly, The New York Times and The Washington Post. In 1976 he joined CBS News to produce The CIA's Secret Army, a documentary about the CIA’s secret war against Castro after the Bay of
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