{"product_id":"my-life-in-cia-a-chronicle-of-1973-9781564783929","title":"My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of improbable coincidences, in the early 1970s Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent. Even friends had their suspicions, which were only reinforced each time he tried to deny such a connection. With growing frustration at his inability to make anyone believe him, Mathews decided to act the part. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Life in CIA\u003c\/i\u003e documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during 1973, where amid charged world events-the coup in Chile, Watergate, the ending of the Vietnam War--he found himself engaged in a game that took sinister twists as various foreign agencies decided he was a presence that should be eliminated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry Mathews has turned these strange events into a spellbinding thriller where the line between fact and fiction gets relentlessly blurred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarry Mathews was the only American member of the Oulipo, the Workshop for Potential Literature, France's longest, and most active, literary movement. He is the author of over a dozen books, including the novels \u003ci\u003eCigarettes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJournalist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTlooth\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492897132818,"sku":"9781564783929","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_899b12b3-ee2c-4c59-bd55-b223fbb6eacc.jpg?v=1730613491","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-life-in-cia-a-chronicle-of-1973-9781564783929","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}