title: Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insiders Account of the Politics of Intelligence
author:  Melvin  A. Goodman 
description: <div>Melvin A. Goodman: During his 42-year government career Goodman served official positions in the CIA, Army, State Dept. and Dept of Defense. Senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins, he is author of "National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism" (with City Lights) and "Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA."</div>
zlib_text: ![image](../images/00015.jpeg)
  
  
  
  
  
  WHEN DIPLOMACY HAS FAILED AND MILITARY INTERVENTION IS DEEMED INAPPROPRIATE,
  OUR LEADERS SOMETIMES TAKE
  
  
  THE THIRD OPTION
  
  
  CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp falls prey to government forces with
  an agenda of their own after Dr. Irene Kennedy is named the successor to dying
  CIA Director Thomas Stansfield—a choice that enrages many inside the world’s
  most powerful intelligence agency. Her detractors will resort to extreme
  measures to prevent her from taking the reins—which makes Rapp an expendable
  asset. But Mitch Rapp is no one’s pawn, and he will stop at nothing to find
  out who has set him up.
  
  
  “Flynn’s high-energy prose . . . generates plenty of suspense.”  
  
  
  —Booklist
  
  
  
  
  
  ![image](../images/00016.jpeg)
  
  
  MEET THE AUTHORS, WATCH VIDEOS AND MORE AT  
  
  
  [SimonandSchuster.com](http://SimonandSchuster.com)  
  
  
  THE SOURCE FOR READING GROUPS
  
  
  
  
  
  In America’s war on terror,
  
  
  VINCE FLYNN
  
  
  “DEMONSTRATES THAT HE TRULY UNDERSTANDS THE PSYCHE OF 