Books like Inside the Company: CIA Diary

Like many a thriller, this reconstructed diary begins with the audience knowing that something terrible has happened. We are then transported back in time to the narrator's youth, when a clean-cut, idealistic, all-American, anti-Communist Phillip Agee first joins the CIA. Like Bolero, the books starts off with an almost boring dum-did-dee-dum-dum day-by-day chronicling of the training of a case officer. As the book progresses, however, you gradually realize you are being sucked into a parallel universe. Agee's brilliance lies in letting the facts speak for themselves. Read this book, then tell your friends to read it. If you do, you will learn history as it has never been taught in US schools and universities. You will come to understand why the 99% of Latin America hates the United States.Inside the Company becomes a page-turner, as it dawns on you that the real protagonist is the people and movements Agee, his fellow case officers and their hired agents are victimizing. Soon you find yourself silently screaming, "Wake up, Phil! Don't you see that what you are doing is WRONG?"Eventually, of course, he does. But "the beat goes on," and you know it.