{"product_id":"doing-time-like-a-spy-how-the-cia-taught-me-to-survive-and-thrive-in-prison-9781947856325","title":"Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 PEN First Amendment Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2013 Peacemaker of the Year Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2012 Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoing Time Like a Spy\u003c\/i\u003e is Kiriakou's memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty 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,\" \u003ci\u003eDoing Time Like a Spy\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News. He was responsible for the capture in Pakistan in 2002 of Abu Zubaydah, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al Qaeda. In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA's torture program, telling ABC News that the CIA tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by then-President George W. Bush. He became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act -- a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of the revelation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2012, Kiriakou was honored with the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, an award given to individuals who \"advance truth and justice despite the personal risk it creates,\" and by the inclusion of his portrait in artist Robert Shetterly's series Americans Who Tell the Truth, which features notable truth-tellers throughout American history. He won the PEN Center USA's prestigious First Amendment Award in 2015, the first Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest in 2016, and the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, also in 2016. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKiriakou is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Convenient Terrorist: Abu Zubaydah and the Weird Wonderland of America's Secret Wars.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rare Bird Books, a Vireo Book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525222699282,"sku":"9781947856325","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1f068049-3a45-46b8-bc16-73c8b93ba1d4.jpg?v=1731209092","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/doing-time-like-a-spy-how-the-cia-taught-me-to-survive-and-thrive-in-prison-9781947856325","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}