Spymaster's Prism

Jack Devine is the former acting director of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, and ran covert ops that drove the Russians out of Afghanistan. In this book, he shows how the Russians have undermined our democracy for decades and how they’ve now weaponized cyberspace, too. It’s an alarming wake-up call from a true American spymaster. 

I have gotten to know Jack over the years, and have gotten a first-hand glimpse at how clever he must have been running secret operations in some of the world’s scariest neighborhoods. Not a guy to ever underestimate; his books are as fascinating as… show more.

Devine helped me understand why Putin is committed to subjugating or destroying Ukraine. In a nutshell, it is because he and many Russians felt humiliated by the U.S. expansion of NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union.

From his long CIA career, Devine tells excellent stories of Russian and U.S spies from the Cold War to the present. He provides new insight into the motivations of two of Russia’s most successful spies against the U.S.—Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.