Congratulations to Eric Burkhart, former CIA agent, for sharing several of his covert operations with the American public in this groundbreaking new book.
Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, Mayhem and Other Memoirs of a Wartime Spy, By Eric Burkhart Purchase your copy today>
“In the summer of 2003, I became a man. It wasn’t something that occurred quickly with fireworks and a key to the city, it was a change that developed during the first six months of my tour in Iraq. I wasn’t alone in this episode of personal evolution. I could sense young men, Americans in uniform, everywhere experiencing the same physical sea change. I’ve often wondered how many boyhoods ended in the sands of Iraq. I can think of at least three-thousand. I am not a soldier. I am a professional spy, trained by the best and known by my reputation. This wasn’t my first journey into a war zone. I left Kosovo in 2001, pregnant with death . . . and although I recovered, the sickness still lingers with me to this day. But Iraq was different. All that sand and heat and everything the same two or three colors: my own personal Heart of Darkness. It was a challenge not to lose your wits in that place. I’m still not sure how much of myself I left behind in Baghdad. This is my story.”