True Crime Book Club (March)

Name: True Crime Book Club (March)
Start: 2025-03-28T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-28T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 14 S. Commercial Alley, Mason City, IA, United States, Iowa 50401

Schedule

Fri Mar 28 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

14 S. Commercial Alley, Mason City, IA, United States, Iowa 50401 | Mason City, IA

Welcome to our newest book club, crime junkies! We'll meet every 4th Friday of the month at 5:30 pm to discuss con artists, dastardly deeds, and general menace. Our March book is Stories from Langley by Edward Mickolus. Swing by the store to get your copy. You can also pre-order your copy here: https://threebellsbooks.com/item/Dcjpoa49Tqh6Px6VZ5SvtA
About the book:
Applicants to the Central Intelligence Agency often asked Edward Mickolus what they might expect in a career there. Mickolus, a former CIA intelligence officer whose duties also included recruiting and public affairs, never had a simple answer. If applicants were considering a life in the National Clandestine Service, the answer was easy. Numerous memoirs show the lives of operations officers collecting secret intelligence overseas, conducting counterintelligence investigations, and running covert action programs. But the CIA isn’t only about case officers in far-flung areas of the world, recruiting spies to steal secrets. For an applicant considering a career as an analyst, a support officer, a scientist, or even a secretary, few sources provide reliable insight into what a more typical career at the CIA might look like. This collection of the exploits and insights of twenty-nine everyday agency employees is Mickolus’s answer. From individuals who have served at the highest levels of the agency to young officers just beginning their careers, Stories from Langley reveals the breadth of career opportunities available at the CIA and offers advice from agency officers themselves.