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Breaking Cover
- My Secret Life in the CIA and What it Taught Me About What's Worth Fighting For
- Narrated by: Michele Rigby Assad
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 02-09-18
- Language: English
- Publisher: Oasis Audio
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $13.99
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The CIA is looking for walking contradictions. Recruiters seek people who can keep a secret, yet pull classified information out of others; who love their country, but are willing to leave it behind to head into dangerous places; who live double lives, but can be trusted with some of the nation's most highly sensitive tasks.
Michele Rigby Assad was one of those people.
As a CIA agent, Michele soon found that working undercover was an all-encompassing job. The threats were real. The mission was a perilous one. Trained as a counterterrorism expert, Michele spent over a decade in the agency - a woman leading some of the most highly skilled operatives on the planet, secretly serving in some the most treacherous areas of the Middle East. But deep inside, Michele wondered: Could she really do this job? Was she in the right place at the right time, or had she misunderstood what she thought was God's calling on her life? Did she have what it would take to survive?
The answer came when Michele faced a life-or-death choice - one that had secretly been the plan for her all along. In Breaking Cover, Michele has at last been cleared to drop cover and tell her story: one of incredible struggle; of thwarted plans and expectations; and most of all, of discovering a faith greater than all her fears.
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- Philip Yaghmai
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Deceptive title and sample.
The title of this book leads you to believe you are reading an. experienced agent's storied, but it is really a religious book. The writer seems quite in experienced and mainly just tells long drawn out stories like a lhigh school girl would.
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- Kayla Pearson
- 08-30-18
Disappointing
I have searched all over for this book, and ended up downloading audible just to read it. I had heard interviews and the initial review of the book looked great. I was excited to engage in an in depth look of a woman’s view in the CIA. Unfortunately, it was less an “exciting thriller-like read” and more an inundation of testimony and Christian bias and views. The story only barely glosses over her time in the CIA, focusing the last half of the book on her mission work outside of the CIA, after having served 10 years in the agency. She tells a few stories of life abroad, but the only detail emerges when talking about the work she did with refugees and IDPs after being employed. This would be fine if the title wasn’t “my secret life in the CIA” - it is HIGHLY misleading. Also, if you are not Christian, you will feel extremely alienated and annoyed by the fact that you spent actual money to listen to this book. The only praise should go to the marketers, who made it seem like this book was definitely worth the read. This isn’t to discount the author’s experience or work, which definitely made a mark in the lives of IDP’s specifically. But it is not a regaling tale of experiences in the CIA. It is more like part resume, (some of the “experiences” are lifted straight out of government performance reports. Anyone familiar with government work will recognize it) part Christian testimony, and has way too much religious ideology to even be taken seriously most of the time. I am very disappointed with the misleading title and cover praise for this book.
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- Mike
- 02-22-18
Definitely worth a listen.
Very interesting story and quite different than expected. Held my attention the entire time and great to know people like this exist in the world.
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- Bob
- 09-09-18
Very little to do either her cover, or her life in the CIA
The book only has a few stories about life in the CIA instead it focuses primarily on the authors faith to the point it not only feels preachy, but nauseatingly so. While the stories of the 10 years she actually spent in the CIA only tended to be short without much emphasis, the last 3 hours of the book are almost entirely dedicated to her faith and a story about persecuted Christians. The book could just as easily been titled “Breaking Cover: How my job at the CIA gave me the skills to be a better missionary/Christian aid worker.”
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- C Wood
- 03-20-18
Story about faith, prayer & the internal battle
Awesome book! I was in Iraq 2005 - Ramadan 2006 as well. Place was exhausting!
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- Ginna
- 03-19-18
Overall Awesome!
I originally bought the CD so I can listen to it while driving, it ended up being so good that my drives were not long enough. I laid in bed that night just wanting to hear more I just couldn’t wait for the next day so I had to also purchase it on Audible. Definitely worth both purchases. Exciting & inspiring a must read!
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- wiskersa
- 03-12-18
Fascinating true story.
If you could sum up Breaking Cover in three words, what would they be?
Amazing what this woman accomplished in the CIA after thinking everyone else was smarter than she was. Trusting always in God for his work in her life. Working together with her husband in some of the worst places and conditions in the world.
What does Michele Rigby Assad bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Having felt many times that I wasn't as smart as other people after starting work in a man's field and succeeding. Knowing that other women have felt the same.
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- Anonymous User
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Who knew being a spy in the CIA could be so boring
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- Megan Archer
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Amazing and Fascinating!
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- Tuesnightspecial
- 04-06-18
Not quite the book it's title suggests
At the simplest level, this is the story of one person's personal journey from entering the CIA to what they did next.
"Secret life" is a little dramatic and even what is presented doesn't go into great depth. There isn't a lot to learn about "what's worth fighting for" apart from what was important to this person, and a fair bit of that appeared to be a 'God will show you the way' type message.
I really like Michelle's narration. Having heard her on various podcasts, this was a little slower but 1.25x sorted that out neatly. I would be keen to hear her read other books. A real highlight for me.
2/3 of the book is about the CIA journey, and the final third is about a particular project to find somewhere for persecuted middle Eastern Christians. Although I wasn't expecting that, I mostly enjoyed it. However the praying and faith in God stuff here was laid on a bit too thickly for me - I am not against it's inclusion but it was definitely too much for me.
Not a lot to learn here - but you may find the personal story interesting. I was hoping for more insightful stuff to take away for my own life. If my expectation was different, I think I would have rated it a bit higher. The narration is excellent.