even before she finished studying in oxford, before 9/11, before her writing mentor danielle pearl was killed. having taken a great risk, a message from donors out of burma when she was your out of high school. she eventually got a masters in conflict and terrorism at georgetown school of foreign service where she developed an algorithm that could predict terrorist attacks based on 200 years of data. at age 21, she was recruited for the cia which she analyzed Ãfor governments. working undercover as an art dealer, specializing in travel and indigenous arts. it's not a huge surprise to hear her book called, - - come to light. in shanghai, her husband, who is also a spy or under surveillance for the chinese they had to talk in code all the time. the place was bugged. except for one bathroom. and then if it weren't enough of a hall of mirrors, we find out the cia was spying on the chinese who were spying on them. since she left the cia in 2010, she's offered insights to cnn, national geographic channel, al jazeera and the bbc. apple is developing this book as a tv series starring bree lars