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The Wolf And The Watchman: A Father, A Son, And The CIA (2014)

by Scott C. Johnson(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0393349438 (ISBN13: 9780393349436)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: Interesting read. The tale of his childhood, growing up with this big secret, yet surrounded by the secret, was very engrossing. The second part, his travels into the war zone as a reporter were also interesting. Harrowing. His effort to describe the interplay between himself and his father seemed less successful. Too much effort to report and not enough of a critical eye for my satisfaction.. Still, worth a read.
review 2: Johnson's father was a CIA agent active in the 1970s and 80s, taking his family (with a realistic view of the stresses and fractures deployment and these jobs place on families) on assignment to India, Mexico and Pakistan--and the accounts of this and being stationed on a base in the US are eerily familiar to anyone who was a military k... moreid in the late Cold War. As an adult, Johnson became an investigative reporter, confronting many of the consequences of US policy in these regions, and grappling with his father's role. Things really get complicated when, after 9/11, his father asks to be reactivated as a contractor working for the CIA in Afghanistan, locating father and son in the same places. less

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