Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his personal life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice. Bob had few enduring non-work friendships, only contacts and acquaintances. His prolonged absences destroyed his marriage, and he felt intense guilt at spending so little time with his children. Sworn to secrecy and constantly driven by ulterior motives, he was a man apart wherever he went.

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

A thriller centered on a former Weather Underground activist who goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

There's never been a Web site like Facebook: more than 350 million people have accounts, and if the growth rate continues, by 2013 every Internet user worldwide will have his or her own page. And no one's had more access to the inner workings of the phenomenon than Kirkpatrick, a senior tech writer at Fortune magazine.

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A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.