Doing Time Like a Spy

How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

By: John Kiriakou

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.

Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his 23 months in prison. Using 20 life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. Including his award-winning blog series "Letters from Loretto", Doing Time Like a Spy is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.

©2017 John Kiriakou (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Great and important read

This is an important book, and once you get into it, a great read also.
How many of us are really willing to stand up for truth especially when there are serious personal consequences?
With a broken, sometimes vindictive system, that can be like a steamroller, most of us might just keep our heads down.
We are fortunate that someone intelligent, articulate and with a good amount of common sense did stand up.
With his witt and humour thrown in, the book is an easy and entertaining read.
Most people never get caught up in or even see much of this unfair system. Nevertheless the people prosecuting the system are doing it in the name of all Americans, so it's consequences reflect on everyone in the end, even if most have never heard of karma.

Learn All You Need to Know About CIA Training and Prison Life

This is a great book that provides outstanding insights into the injustice that John Kiriakou and his family had to endure, when he became a ‘whistleblower’ in revealing the CIA’s torture program. The book also provides great insights into other challenges we face, the (In) Justice system, prison reform and moral decay. Well written and superbly narrated! Enthusiastically recommended!

A true comedy tragedy

From injustice to freedom, this is a great book about tyranny, liars, and prevailing. Some stories overlap because of the nature of JK’s writing. My biggest fear is going to prison for whatever reason but this book has reminded me of certain truths. 1A rights still exist and we are not alone in our struggles.

The middle is weak

The beginning of the book is great. The back of the book is pretty good, but it just takes a long time to get through the middle

Excellent Read

Only thing that would have made it better is if Kiriakou had narrated it himself.