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The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story

de Robert Baer, Dayna Baer

Outros autores: dayana baer (Autor)

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Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence Medal.nbsp; But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his personal life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice. Bob had few enduring non-work friendships, only contacts and acquaintances. His prolonged absences destroyed his marriage, and he felt intense guilt at spending so little time with his children. Sworn to secrecy and constantly driven by ulterior motives, he was a man apart wherever he went. nbsp; Dayna Williamson thought of herself as just an ordinary California girl -- admittedly one born into a comfortable lifestyle.nbsp; But she was always looking to get closer to the edge.nbsp; When she joined the CIA, she was initially tasked with Agency background checks, but the attractive Berkeley graduate quickly distinguished herself as someone who could thrive in the field, and she was eventually assigned to "Protective Operations" training where she learned to handle weapons and explosives and conduct high-speed escape and evasion. Tapped to serve in some of the world's most dangerous places, she discovered an inner strength and resourcefulness she'd never known -- but she also came to see that the spy life exacts a heavy toll.nbsp; Her marriage crumbled, her parents grew distant, and she lost touch with friends who'd once meant everything to her. nbsp; When Bob and Dayna met on a mission in Sarajevo, it wasn't love at first sight. They were both too jaded for that. But there was something there, a spark. And as the danger escalated and their affection for each other grew, they realized it was time to leave "the Company," to somehow rediscover the people they'd once been. nbsp; As worldly as both were, the couple didn't realize at first that turning in their Agency I.D. cards would not be enough to put their covert past behind.nbsp; The fact was, their clandestine relationships remained.nbsp; Living as "civilians" in conflict-ridden Beirut, they fielded assassination proposals, met with Arab sheiks, wily oil tycoons, terrorists, and assorted outlaws - and came perilously close to dying. nbsp;But even then they couldn't know that their most formidable challenge lay ahead. nbsp; Simultaneously a trip deep down the intelligence rabbit hole - one that shows how the "game" actually works, including the compromises it asks of those who play by its rules -- and a portrait of two people trying to regain a normal life, The Company We Keep is a masterly depiction of the real world of shadows.… (mais)
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Just started but totally likeable couple. Goes from one vignette to another by one then the other. Real; crazy; spying. ( )
  tmph | Sep 13, 2020 |
I enjoy books about real-life spy craft, Bob Baer's memoir "See No Evil," being one of my favorites. And three-quarters of this book offer similar offers similar stories. Real spy-life is not James Bond. It can be just as dangerous, but more because the spy is working in a menacing theater of operations rather than up against specially identifiable villains and their henchmen. On the other hand, a couple of stories here reveal that real life for the spy also involves things like dealing with one's family relations, including a mother who comes to visit while the spy is on duty!

Because of my interests, the book lost momentum once our spies, Bob and Dayna, retire and marry. The last part of the book is about their efforts adopting a baby from Pakistan. Very meaningful to them, of course, but for this reader, not a story that held the same power. ( )
  kvrfan | Aug 19, 2016 |
I'm a sucker for a good true spy novel. I love the female perspective of the spy world. This book tells two stories in 1 book. You have his side and his undercover world. Her side and her undercover world. Then the two collide!

It had to be hard to live a life, not be able to talk to your spouse about everything but what your doing. I see why affairs and marriages are ruined by this life.

I really enjoyed this book. It was very insightful into what hell our CIA is put through. ( )
  cbilbo | Apr 8, 2014 |
I'm a sucker for a good true spy novel. I love the female perspective of the spy world. This book tells two stories in 1 book. You have his side and his undercover world. Her side and her undercover world. Then the two collide!

It had to be hard to live a life, not be able to talk to your spouse about everything but what your doing. I see why affairs and marriages are ruined by this life.

I really enjoyed this book. It was very insightful into what hell our CIA is put through. ( )
  cbilbo | Apr 8, 2014 |
This account of how two CIA operating officers met, married and began settling into life after the CIA treats the dissolution of each of their first marriages rather offhandedly, but does make the point that the only path to true relationships is to settle in and work on maintaining them. ( )
  nmele | Apr 6, 2013 |
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Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence Medal.nbsp; But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his personal life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice. Bob had few enduring non-work friendships, only contacts and acquaintances. His prolonged absences destroyed his marriage, and he felt intense guilt at spending so little time with his children. Sworn to secrecy and constantly driven by ulterior motives, he was a man apart wherever he went. nbsp; Dayna Williamson thought of herself as just an ordinary California girl -- admittedly one born into a comfortable lifestyle.nbsp; But she was always looking to get closer to the edge.nbsp; When she joined the CIA, she was initially tasked with Agency background checks, but the attractive Berkeley graduate quickly distinguished herself as someone who could thrive in the field, and she was eventually assigned to "Protective Operations" training where she learned to handle weapons and explosives and conduct high-speed escape and evasion. Tapped to serve in some of the world's most dangerous places, she discovered an inner strength and resourcefulness she'd never known -- but she also came to see that the spy life exacts a heavy toll.nbsp; Her marriage crumbled, her parents grew distant, and she lost touch with friends who'd once meant everything to her. nbsp; When Bob and Dayna met on a mission in Sarajevo, it wasn't love at first sight. They were both too jaded for that. But there was something there, a spark. And as the danger escalated and their affection for each other grew, they realized it was time to leave "the Company," to somehow rediscover the people they'd once been. nbsp; As worldly as both were, the couple didn't realize at first that turning in their Agency I.D. cards would not be enough to put their covert past behind.nbsp; The fact was, their clandestine relationships remained.nbsp; Living as "civilians" in conflict-ridden Beirut, they fielded assassination proposals, met with Arab sheiks, wily oil tycoons, terrorists, and assorted outlaws - and came perilously close to dying. nbsp;But even then they couldn't know that their most formidable challenge lay ahead. nbsp; Simultaneously a trip deep down the intelligence rabbit hole - one that shows how the "game" actually works, including the compromises it asks of those who play by its rules -- and a portrait of two people trying to regain a normal life, The Company We Keep is a masterly depiction of the real world of shadows.

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