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Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
colluded
Tara Westover • Educated: A Memoir
The Betrayal: The True Story of My Brush with Death in the World of Narcos and Launderers
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Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
Secret communication achieved by hiding the existence of a message is known as steganography, derived from the Greek words steganos, meaning “covered,” and graphein, meaning “to write.”
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
He’s referring to Operation Merlin, a botched effort from a few years back that’s just been leaked to the press. In a bid to entrap the Iranians into building a nuclear weapon in contravention of the ban, we apparently arranged for an asset to pass them plans for a contraband firing mechanism, sneakily—or so we thought—adapted to render the system
... See moreAmaryllis Fox • Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
I mean, there have been clandestine operations—I don’t want to suggest that it’s novel. Like, overthrowing the government of Iran in 1953 was clandestine.19 Overthrowing the government of Guatemala in 1954 was clandestine—and it was kept secret for twenty years.