My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564783929)

Through 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.

My Life in CIA 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.

Harry Mathews has turned these strange events into a spellbinding thriller where the line between fact and fiction gets relentlessly blurred.

Author: Harry Mathews
ISBN-10: 1564783928
ISBN-13: 9781564783929
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 01/20/2015
Pages: 203
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.34w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/18/2005 pg. 44
New York Times 05/15/2005 pg. 38
Booklist 05/15/2005 pg. 1640
Library Journal 06/15/2005 pg. 59
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2005 pg. 377
New York Review of Books 10/05/2006 pg. 39