Mr. Coyle spent 30 years as a field operations officer for the CIA, almost half of that time abroad, working undercover in a variety of countries, including Portugal and in Moscow in the mid-1980s ...ver maisMr. Coyle spent 30 years as a field operations officer for the CIA, almost half of that time abroad, working undercover in a variety of countries, including Portugal and in Moscow in the mid-1980s during the Soviet Union era. He is a recipient of the CIA’s Intelligence Medal of Merit for one of his Russian operations. After retiring in 2006 he taught courses on national security issues until 2017 at his alma mater, Indiana University, while beginning to write fictional spy novels as a hobby. Having himself been an intelligence officer and recruited a number of foreign officials, he is able tell a realistic story of what goes on in the shadows and the motivations of people who become spies. This is his ninth spy novel about the intellectual chess game that goes on between the hunter and the hunted.ver menos