“This book is surely the best portrait of the working C.I.A. we have had in many years.” —New York Times Book Review

The most riveting and inventive spy novel to come along in years, published as vetted by the CIA itself, An Ordinary Spy is a dramatic portrait of modern espionage, filled with suspense, intrigue, and betrayal.

""Wholly original.”—Los Angeles Times

“Weisberg, a former C.I.A. agent, skillfully maintains a tension-filled plot and offers a humanistic spin on the typical spy story, sensitively portraying the pain of risking lives for the sake of ambition.”—New Yorker

“In a spare but beautifully written book, Weisberg captures the paranoia and frustration, if not the futility, of the real world of spying.”—Newsweek

“The best of new American spy fiction.”—Chicago Tribune

“Recalls G raham G reene’s comic Our Man in Havana…An odd, well-written and interesting novel, a low-key corrective to all the razzle-dazzle spy tales we’ve read.”—Washington Post

“A superb CIA novel.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A well-wrought, beautifully crafted, incisive book…a remarkably honest and revealing picture of those who shouldn't have become spies in the first place. ”—Washington Times