What I'm reading 9/22/20: 01 Deadly Waters 02 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook 03 The Silent Companions

01 Leaving the Witness In Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, Amber Scorah takes the reader into her confidences and lays bare her sheltered experiences, religious indoctrination, societal and gender pressures, hearty evangelism, and her eventual questioning and subsequent freezing out from the Jehovah’s Witnesses—which meant she was cut off permanently from almost everyone she knew. Scorah retraces her steps from being a covert, illegal proselytizer i

Macintyre presents a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and twists and turns.

I love a peek at a secret world, and here Walder offers fascinating glimpses of her life as a CIA and an FBI agent.