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Edward Wilson believed in America, and he would sacrifice everything he loved to protect it.
The true story of the birth of the CIA through the eyes of a man who never existed.
The untold story of the most powerful covert agency in the world.
All our dirty secrets start here.
Who is the good shepherd? The one who looks after his family or the one who looks after his country?

PLOT SUMMARY

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes an influential veteran operative, while his distrust of everyone around him increases to no end. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.