num_pages: 203
description: "Through a series of improbable coincidences, in the early 1970s Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent. Even friends had their suspicions, which were only reinforced each time he tried to deny such a connection. With growing frustration at his inability to make anyone believe him, Mathews decided to act the part." "My Life in the CIA documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during 1973, where amid charged world events - the coup in Chile, Watergate, the ending of the Vietnam War - he found himself engaged in a game that took sinister twists as various foreign agencies decided he was a presence that should be eliminated." Harry Mathews has turned these strange events into a thriller where the line between fact and fiction gets relentlessly blurred.
language: English
title: My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973
titlecomplete: My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973
genres: Literature, American, American Fiction, Espionage, Novels, United States, Biography Memoir, Fiction, The United States Of America
ratings_count: 330
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press