On Feb 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Cleverness Identities Protection Take action, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His criminal offense: blowing the whistle within the CIA’s use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.

Doing Time Just like a Spy is definitely Kiriakou’s memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty lifestyle skills he discovered in CIA functional training, he could keep himself secure and near the top of the jail social heap. Including his award-winning blog series ‘Characters from Loretto,’ Doing Time Such as a Spy is at once a searing journal of daily jail existence and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.