ISBN: 0-88739-455-8
169 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Price: $14.95
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Born to Spy
Austin Goodrich
Author Austin Goodrich chronicles a life at home and abroad from his Depression-era formative years in Battle Creek, Michigan, through World War II as an infantry soldier in Europe, to his long career as a field agent for the Central Intelligence Agency in countries around the world. Goodrich recounts a youth of vacant-lot ballgames and childhood antics, where he and siblings tested their parents' limits. Sneaking cigarettes with friends may have helped him prepare for a life of clandestine meetings in exotic, faraway places. Traveling through Europe in the late '40s and observing firsthand the beginnings of Cold War tensions steered him toward a profession as a secret agent.
Bio: AUSTIN GOODRICH has produced radio news feature programs in Sweden, served as a CBS News stringer correspondent, and written feature stories for international newspapers. He is married with five children ranging from 8 to 45 years of age.
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