{"product_id":"9780393240405","title":"The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award and named a \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e Growing up, Scott C. Johnson always suspected that his father was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, one of the CIA’s most trusted officers. At first the secret was thrilling. But over time Scott began to have doubts. How could a man so rigorously trained to deceive and manipulate simply turn off those skills at home? His father had been living a double life for so long that his lies were hard to separate from the truth. \u003cp\u003eWhen Scott embarked on a career as a foreign correspondent, he found himself returning to many of the troubled countries of his youth. In the dusty streets of Pakistan and Afghanistan, amid the cold urbanity of Yugoslavia, and down the mysterious alleys of Mexico City, he came face to face with his father’s murky past—and his own complicity in it. Scott learned that his chosen profession was not so different from his father’s: they both worked to gain people’s trust and to uncover their secrets. The only difference was what they did with that information.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the aftermath of 9\/11, father and son found themselves on assignment in Afghanistan and the Middle East, one as a CIA contractor, the other as a reporter for Newsweek. Suddenly, an unsettled Scott was forced to keep his father’s secret all over again. As their professional lives collided, Scott and his father inched toward a personal reckoning, struggling to overcome a lifetime of suspicion and deception.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wolf and the Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e is a provocative, meditative account of truth and duplicity, of manipulation and loyalty. It is also a moving, intensely personal portrait of a bond between father and son that endured in the shadow of one of the world’s most secretive and unforgiving institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e* PEN Center USA Award Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReading group guide available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104262340848,"sku":"9780393240405","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393240405_p0.jpg?v=1763696642","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393240405","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}