title: A Spy's Rsum: Confessions of a Maverick Intelligence Professional and Misadventure Capitalist (Scarecrow Professional Intelligence Education: A Spy's Resume)
author:  Marc Anthony Viola 
description: Educational, informative and entertaining on many levels, <i>A Spy's Resume</i> is written with a wry sense of humor and a wisdom that comes from experience. [An] excellent book, well written and giving a wide-open window into the pros and cons of intelligence life. . . . is definitely a book to read and absorb. (<i>International Association for Intelligence Education, September 2009</i>)
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  > More Praise for The Spymasters
  
  > “Chris Whipple has become in recent years something of a Washington elite
  > whisperer. In The Spymasters—as in his equally masterful book, The
  > Gatekeepers—he gets almost everyone to spill their secrets.”
  
  > > —David Friend, Vanity Fair
  
  > “Riveting… a timely reminder of the outsize influence of our nation’s
  > intelligence bureaucracy—and the men and women who live in this wilderness
  > of mirrors. ‘They were all asked to do things they shouldn’t do,’ says
  > Cynthia Helms, wife of the legendary CIA director Richard Helms. Whipple
  > explores these ethical quandaries with nuance and fairness.”
  
  > > —Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good Spy: The Life and
  > Death of Robert Ames
  
  > “Astute… At a time when America’s intelligence community is under attack
  > from conspiracy theories and fake news, Whipple provides a real-world
  > history of those who have held one of the most difficult posts in
  > Washington. These portraits ar