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PMCIBOOK REVIEWI'd like to take the time to introduceyou to our model featured left, afriend of mine named Travis Partyka,affectionally known as 'Big Red', being6'4" and 240lbs. He was the realdeal, 2-14INF 10th MTN DIV Sniper,contractor and my friend.Well remembered and sorely missed27/6/84 - 24/01/21 RIP TP.Baz, PMCI Team.RISK TAKER, SPY MAKER:TALES OF A CIA CASEOFFICERSometimes you come across a factual story that reads just like anovel, and Risk Taker, Spy Maker: Tales of a CIA Case Officer byBarry Broman is one of them, and it’s a story that I personallyfound hard to put down!Broman has led a remarkable life, and met some remarkablepeople along the way of his years at a Central IntelligenceAgency case officer. He was a teenage photographer for theAssociated Press in Southeast Asia, then a Marine Corps infantryofficer in combat in Vietnam before spending a quarter centuryas a “head-hunter” with dozens of recruits for the ClandestineService in operations around the world. A lifelong photographerand traveller, he has published many articles and books.Broman received a BA in Political Science in 1967 followed by anMA in Southeast Asian Studies a year later. Immediately followinghis service in the Marine Corps, he was recruited by the CIA andspent his first posting in Cambodia at war. He was present atthe fall of Phnom Penh in 1975, escaping just before the KhmerRouge took power.He subsequently served in other Asian postings, one in Europe,and one in the Western Hemisphere. During his career, Bromanwas twice a CIA chief of station, once a Deputy Chief of Station,and supervised an international para-military project in support ofthe Cambodian resistance to Vietnamese invaders. He was activelyinvolved in several assignments in counter-narcotics operations inSoutheast Asia including a major “bust” that yielded 551 kilogramsof high-grade heroin from a major drug trafficker!His “favourite agent” against a variety of “hard targets” was afellow whose only demand was that his assignments be “lifethreatening”; he survived them all. At times, the memoir readslike a travel book with tales of visits to little-known and rarelyseen places like the Naga Hills on the India-Burma border, theworld-famous but off limits jade and ruby mines of Burma, andthe isolated Banda Islands of Indonesia, the home of nutmeg.The book is strengthened by many photos by the author. Theyinclude Marines in action in Vietnam, the ravages of war inCambodia at war, and opium buyers forcing growers to sell inBurma. If you want to know more about changing times on aworldwide stage, of the evolution between real war and the“shadow war” and the part of one astonishing individual in all ofit, then this is a “must read”.Publisher : Casemate Publishers (15 Aug. 2020)Language : EnglishHardcover : 312 pagesISBN-10 : 1612008968ISBN-13 : 978-1612008967BOOK REVIEWpmcimagazine.com