Fair Game - My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal By the White House

London: Simon and Schuster, 2007. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 411 pages. On July 6 200, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic article 'What I didn't Find in Africa' appeared in the New York Times.A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassdor Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. The public disclosure of that secret information spurred a federal investigation and led to the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, and the Wilsons' civil suit against top officials of the Bush administration. Valerie Wilson retired from the CIA in January 2006 and sets the record straight providing an extraordinary account of her training and experiences. As readers will see, the CIA still deems much of the detail of her story to be classified and parts have been redacted, 15. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.