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Surprise, Kill, Vanish audiobook

  • By: Annie Jacobsen
  • Narrator: Annie Jacobsen
  • Length: 19 hours 5 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: May 14, 2019
  • Language: English
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish Audiobook Summary

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA’s secret paramilitary units.

Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace.

When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations force in the world.

Originally known as the president’s guerrilla warfare corps, SAD conducts risky and ruthless operations that have evolved over time to defend America from its enemies. Almost every American president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage, subversion and, yes, assassination.

With unprecedented access to forty-two men and women who proudly and secretly worked on CIA covert operations from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day, along with declassified documents and deep historical research, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen unveils — like never before — a complex world of individuals working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers, and saboteurs.

Despite Hollywood notions of off-book operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually one piece in a colossal foreign policy machine.

Written with the pacing of a thriller, Surprise, Kill, Vanish brings to vivid life the sheer pandemonium and chaos, as well as the unforgettable human will to survive and the intellectual challenge of not giving up hope that define paramilitary and intelligence work. Jacobsen’s exclusive interviews — with members of the CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service (equivalent to the Pentagon’s generals), its counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and Special Activities Division’s Ground Branch operators who conduct today’s close-quarters killing operations around the world — reveal, for the first time, the enormity of this shocking, controversial, and morally complex terrain. Is the CIA’s paramilitary army America’s weaponized strength, or a liability to its principled standing in the world? Every operation reported in this book, however unsettling, is legal.

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Surprise, Kill, Vanish Full Details

Narrator Annie Jacobsen
Length 19 hours 5 minutes
Author Annie Jacobsen
Publisher Hachette Audio
Release date May 14, 2019
ISBN 9781478993353

Subjects

The publisher of the Surprise, Kill, Vanish is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Political Science, Intelligence & Espionage

Additional info

The publisher of the Surprise, Kill, Vanish is Hachette Audio. The imprint is Little, Brown & Company. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781478993353.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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