How does the modern American spy game work? A new book entitled “Shadow Cell: An Insider Account of America’s New Spy War” appears to give readers a pretty good blueprint.
Espionage is all about obtaining and retaining assets, that is, until they are no longer useful. This method, indeed part of the very foundation of espionage, has not been abandoned in this “new spy war,” but there has been an adjustment. Andrew and Jihi Bustamante, husband and wife and former CIA operatives, take readers on a memoir-esque journey through their entrance into the CIA where they met, fell in love, and got married; encouraged each other through career disappointments; were teamed up to institute innovative ways to infiltrate nations considered “hard targets;” and eventually resigned from the Agency.
