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Doing Time Like a Spy

How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

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Doing Time Like a Spy

By: John Kiriakou
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.

Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his 23 months in prison. Using 20 life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. Including his award-winning blog series "Letters from Loretto", Doing Time Like a Spy is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.

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great book . very well read . interesting story. well done John for standing your ground and I wish you all the best in the future

great voice match to the author

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such a good book, very funny situations , some real dumb asses in jail. lots of chomos, I bet he was glad to see the back of that lot

very entertaining book

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The structure of the plot could’ve been organised better.

Otherwise good depth telling and structure within the chapters.

The bravery of the author.

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Interesting story but some dialogues were irrelevant and not bringing much to the book. I would listen to the first half next time.

Interesting story

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Interesting insight into Board of Prisons and US prison system. A lot is stereotypes given in media proven true. Entertaining read.

Really really well performed

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