Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin
by Haas, Roland W
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1597970867
- ISBN 13
- 9781597970860
- Seller
-
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Washington D.C.: Potomac Books Inc, 2007. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Fine. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4. 264 Pages. Brand new condition with Demco Polyfit covering protecting the book and jacket since purchase. Red boards. While at Purdue University on an NROTC scholarship in 1971, Roland Haas was recruited to become a CIA deep clandestine operative. He underwent intensive training to prepare for insertion into hostile areas, including High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachuting and weapons instruction. In the course of his first mission (to East and West Germany, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bulgaria, Romania, and Austria), he assassinated several international drug dealers. On his return, he was thrown into an Iranian prison, where he was physically and psychologically tortured. Over the next thirty years, he served the agency on an as-needed basis, engaging in such activities as hunting down and eliminating members of the Red Army Faction and extracting Soviet Spetsnaz officers from East Germany. His cover jobs included being a part owner of an Oakland health club, which brought him into close contact with steroid abuse in professional athletics, drug abuse in general, and the Hell's Angels, whom he believes tried to have him killed. He also served in Germany as site commander for the Conventional Forces in Europe weapons treaty. His most recent cover was as the deputy director of intelligence in the U.S. Army Reserve Command, which involved him with the Guantanamo detention facility. A true story that pulls no punches, Enter the Past Tense also chronicles Haas's descent into, and recovery from, alcoholism that resulted from the stress of this extraordinary life. It is an eye-opening look at the dark, but many would argue necessary, side of intelligence work and one that readers won't soon forget.
Synopsis
Includes index.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21926
- Title
- Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin
- Author
- Haas, Roland W
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1597970867
- ISBN 13
- 9781597970860
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc
- Place of Publication
- Washington D.C.
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 6 1/4" x 9 1/4
- LCCN
- 2007007591
Terms of Sale
Dons Book Store
We accept Discover, MasterCard and Visa. Books may be returned for any reason providing a request is made within 7 days of receipt. Return shipping charges refunded if book is not as described.
About the Seller
Dons Book Store
Biblio member since 2005
Albuquerque, New Mexico
About Dons Book Store
We are a family owned and operated bookstore in same location for 52 years. We have built our business on integrity, professional and personal service. General line of new and used paperback and hardback books, comics and graphic novels.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...