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I had heard someone call this book Bridget Jones meets James Bond. I agree. I am not even finished with the book, but there were parts of it I could not believe... Moran says she was at top of... everything (she kind of says it way too often, really). Everyone around her is faceless negativity - wimp, lacking common sense, arrogant a**, etc. Only she stands out in her shining brightness, Harvard top, "overachiever, acing in every test ever taken", etc, etc. And then she is told, she is not going to be scaling walls stealing secrets from the safe, etc. She hears it first time... during CO (Case Officer) training?! and has issues about making people betray their country??? She heard it the first time that this is what her job is about WHILE already being in the CIA? WOW! what a shock must have it been... Now, I understand that many people, not interested in the topic, may have the same perception as Moran did about what spy does, and it is totally ok, until and unless you actually plan to BECOME one! My point is: how can a bright person which Moran claims to be (declares it over and over), go into job requiring so much commitment, without even checking up what the job actually does beyond information obtained from Harriet the Spy books and 007 movies? COs job is to manipulate people. If someone questions obtainability of such a "secret" information, give it a try... Google it, if don't want to read any books (if you do - Espionage by Ernest Volkman first of many that comes to mind)... the fact that she did not know such a basic truth before being told at CIA training - is asinine. Anyway, I am still not saying that book is not readable. It is. There are few laughs too: some intended by author, and some - not, if you know what I mean. My problem with the book is attitudes, self-assertion and assertion of others by author. And finally, one category of people for whom I say this book is a must read - is CIA recruitment officers, who should take notes on a profile of a person they never want to hire.