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The Wolf and the Watchman: 1 of 4: A Father a Son and the CIA Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Scott C. Johnson (Author), Jay Snyder (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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Photo: General William J. Donovan reviews Operational Group members in Bethesda, Maryland prior to their departure for China in 1945.
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General William J. Donovan reviews the Operational Groups (OGs) at Area F, the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, prior to their departure for China.

The Wolf and the Watchman: 1 of 4: A Father a Son and the CIA  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Scott C. Johnson (Author), Jay Snyder (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)


https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Watchman-Father-Son-CIA/dp/B00HCS0LLQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

What happens when a father asks his son to lie for the greater good? Growing up, Scott C. Johnson always suspected that his father was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, one of the CIA’s most trusted officers. At first the secret was thrilling. But over time, Scott began to have doubts. How could a man so rigorously trained to deceive and manipulate simply turn off those skills at home? His father had been living a double life for so long that his lies were hard to separate from the truth. 

When Scott embarked on a career as a foreign correspondent, he found himself returning to many of the troubled countries of his youth. In the dusty streets of Pakistan and Afghanistan, amid the cold urbanity of Yugoslavia, and down the mysterious alleys of Mexico City, he came face to face with his father’s murky past – and his own complicity in it. Scott learned that his chosen profession was not so different from his father’s: they both worked to gain people’s trust and to uncover their secrets. 

The only difference was what they did with that information. In the aftermath of 9/11, father and son found themselves on assignment in Afghanistan and the Middle East, one as a CIA contractor, the other as a reporter for Newsweek. Suddenly, an unsettled Scott was forced to keep his father’s secret all over again. As their professional lives collided, Scott and his father inched toward a personal reckoning, struggling to overcome a lifetime of suspicion and deception. 

The Wolf and the Watchman is a provocative, meditative account of truth and duplicity, of manipulation and loyalty. It is also a moving, intensely personal portrait of a bond between father and son that endured in the shadow of one of the world’s most secretive and unforgiving institutions.

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