John Anthony Rizzo
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 320 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1975, fresh out of law school and working at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took "a total shot in the dark" and sent his résumé to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that more than thirty years later, after serving under eleven CIA directors and seven presidents, he would become a notorious public figure--a symbol and a victim of the toxic winds of post-9/11 Washington. From serving as the point person answering for the Iran-contra...