Loose Lips

Claire Burlinski has written a clever story of a young woman who decides to join the CIA and the strange and at times weird training she undergoes after being accepted. But why such an intelligent woman would fall in love with a man who is obviously screwed up, I could not understand and one of the......more

After sending her resume to the CIA on a whim, Selena Keller is surprised when they actually contact her and accept her. She heads to the Farm for training on all things covert: learning how to spot a tail, how to spot and use weaknesses of targets, and how to convince someone else to commit treason......more

When I was 18 or 19 and believed all career paths were possible, I thought I could be a spy. I don't know why . . . the romance of TV and movies, I imagine. In retrospect, that was never a path that I could have pulled off, but I still enjoy the intrigue, the mystery, the subterfuge of spies doing t......more

I enjoyed this book in sections. What drove the 2 was the lackluster ending in addition to poor character development. The ending is basically just: I quit because it got to hard And the characters aren’t developed in a way that makes you understand or feel much emotion towards them. Except Stan, he’......more

Berlinski gives us a peak at CIA training and culture from a flunkie's point of view. Not an exceptional book but entertaining and humorous in spots. Because the central character is not particularly likeable and because she ends up going precisely nowhere in career or relationships, the book falls......more