JACK IN THE BOX—A Shadow War Thriller

Release Date: May 2004
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A chilling portrait of a highly placed mole and an international conspiracy to penetrate and subvert U.S. intelligence from from the New York Times Bestselling Author of SOAR.

Set against the current war on terror, JACK IN THE BOX (William Morrow; $24.95) is based on actual CIA operations. John Weisman’s JACK IN THE BOX goes deep inside the American intelligence community as few novels ever have.

Former CIA Moscow station chief Sam Waterman is drawn into an astonishing maze of deception when he is called on to debrief the legendary traitor Edward Lee Howard. The only CIA officer ever to defect to the KGB, Howard has decided to come home and come clean. Or has he? He makes the stunning allegation that American intelligence, distracted by the war on terror, has been penetrated by high level moles. If true, the government and the intelligence community would be thrown into chaos. But before Waterman can verify any of it, Howard is murdered.

Desperate, Waterman scours his old haunts in Moscow, Paris, and Washington DC. As he delves deeper and begins to unravel a mind-bending conspiracy, his old friends—and old enemies—turn up dead. Through it all he comes to realize that the new CIA is nothing like the old one; that all truth is relative, and that honor has become an afterthought.

Praise for JACK IN THE BOX

"JACK IN THE BOX is the insider's insider spy novel."

—Seymour M. Hersh

"John Weisman takes the reader into the very heart of CIA and its special operations."

—Robert Baer, author of the bestselling Sleeping with the Devil and veteran CIA case officer

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