Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History

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Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History

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	Publisher :	Blackstone Audio Inc
	Author :	George Crile
	Narrator :	Christopher Lane

	Length :	12 hours 40 minutes (Unabridged)

Download Price :		$21.75

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A Blackstone Audie® Award Winner.

Nominated by Tom Hanks as one of his "Top Five Page Turners" in the March 15th issue of Time Magazine.

Charlie Wilson’s War is the untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agency’s history.
In the early 1980s, after a Houston socialite turned Wilson’s attention to the ragged Afghan freedom fighters who continued to fight the Soviet invaders despite overwhelming odds, the congressman became passionate about their cause and procured hundreds of millions of dollars to support the mujahedeen.

Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealers conventions, to the Khyber Pass, Charlie Wilson’s War is a detailed and brilliantly reported account of the inside workings of the CIA.

“Narrator Christopher Lane affects an even tone and pace, allowing the events of the story to carry the listener to the extraordinary highs and sickening lows of the flawed but heroic Wilson. Thankfully, Lane takes it easy on the accents and shines brightest when allowing a tinge of cynicism in his delivery. “—AudioFile

“Put the Tom Clancy clones back on the shelf; this covert-ops chronicle is practically impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly

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