The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service

A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career

Revelatory and groundbreaking, The Art of Intelligence will change the way people view the CIA, domestic and foreign intelligence, and international terrorism. Henry A. “Hank” Crumpton, a twenty-four-year veteran of the CIA’s Clandestine Service, offers a thrilling account that delivers profound lessons about what it means to serve as an honorable spy. From CIA recruiting missions in Africa to pioneering new programs like the UAV Predator, from running post–9/11 missions in Afghanistan to heading up all clandestine CIA operations in the United States, Crumpton chronicles his role—in the battlefield and in the Oval Office—in transforming the way America wages war and sheds light on issues of domestic espionage.

• Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story
• Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy
• Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying
• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
• The Widow Spy
• For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush
• First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
• The Five Disciplines of Intelligence Collection
• The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World
• The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB