AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM My Years at the CIA

The former CIA director doesn't tell all, but what he reveals about his job and the secret agency he directed enters some dark passages. He remembers dry-mouthed rides to brief the president each morning and how he came to drink wine from an antler on a raucous trip to the Russian state of Georgia. Narrator Arthur Morey keeps himself out of the limelight with a treatment void of theatrical voices, relying instead on variations in pitch and tone to sound engaged. Too often, Morey allows himself a truculent voice when the author's words don't justify one. George Tenet reads a preface and a prescient afterword, chilling in its warnings for our future. For being a perceptive personal history written by an experienced spy, this audiobook is a "slam-dunk." J.A.H. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/ SEP 07]