After Many Days
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (677 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555716725 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 197 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Married there, she subsequently accompanied her husband to Munich and spent several more years abroad in Europe. After college, she joined the CIA and was assigned to Vienna where she engaged in Cold War espionage. She has been published in The Boston Globe and has spoken extensively on her travels and other adventures. . About the Author Shirley Perry hails from the Mid-West
E. Jones said Lukewarm Filibuster - totally numbing. This book reads like the longest, most boring Christmas form letter you can imagine. It has little to do with espionage and is mainly a tedious recounting of innumerable prosaic details from the author's not-so-remarkable past. This rambling recollection of mundane personal minutia includes detailed descriptions of travel arrangements made, tourists spots visited, restaurants patronized, meals eaten and souvenirs purchased, but not a heck of a lot else. Characters other than the author herself are mentioned sparingly, and not developed.. Not exactly what I expected BAK I was anticipating a book about the author's intelligence experiences. I was disappointed that the author focused at times on her family life and her dogsOh, well. Amazon Customer said Too Many Days. AFTER MANY DAYS by Shirley Perry started off with an interesting story, albeit a little slow. It kept moving slower and slower, repeating way too much detail and too many exact phrases to keep my interest. I finished the book mainly because I am stubborn and always hope for a good endingwhich never came. I realize this is a non-fiction memoir but keeping the flow moving would help tremendously. The author's descriptions of people and places were done well enough to be able to picture the event or person in my minds eye, but the story line just couldn't carry the descriptions.
. She has been published in The Boston Globe and has spoken extensively on her travels and other adventures. After college, she joined the CIA and was assigned to Vienna where she engaged in Cold War espionage. Shirley Perry hails from the Mid-West. Married there, she subsequently accompanied her husband to M
Perry, a story that encompasses her many adventures. After Many Days tells the story of Shirley H. From her days as a CIA operative during the Cold War in Vienna to her life of intrigue behind the Iron Curtain and details of her Halliburton-inspired travels around the Middle East during that period, hers is truly a life different from the ordinary.Her post-CIA life is riveting as well. Later peregrinations with her family took her to Luxembourg City, where she founded the American School of Luxembourg, and to Toronto, where she returned to university to acquire an MBA.In the final chapters, she writes about uprooting, moving out and on to a new life full of new adventures.