Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall by: BookPage and Kirkus Reviews
The Women of the CIA Are Finally Getting Some Recognition – Washingtonian
The C.I.A.’s secret sisterhood – Politico
“[The Sisterhood] touched me in ways I did not expect. . . . [A] deeply researched and highly readable book . . . Compelling.”
—Valerie Plame, Foreign Policy
“Women spies, archivists, analysts and operatives have been underestimated and overlooked through the years. Liza Mundy spins a gripping tale of how they used those slights to their advantage as they captured state secrets and spotted threats that the men working alongside them had missed.”
—BookPage, Most Anticipated Fall Books
“Galvanizing . . . [and] brimming with startling, intriguing, and infuriating facts and insights, this arresting and suspenseful exposé is rooted in extensive interviews and research as exacting as that conducted by the brilliant women analysts Mundy profiles. . . . Every page is electric with revelations as Mundy vividly and perceptively portrays the remarkable women who covertly elevated this complicated, controversial, yet essential government agency.”
—Booklist, ★ starred review ★
“With painstaking research, an award-winning journalist reveals the crucial roles undertaken by women in the intelligence arena. . . . The result is a vivid, compelling, and important book. Another winner from Mundy, who tells a story that deserves to be told about women who deserve to be remembered.”
—Kirkus Reviews, ★ starred review ★
“This masterful book cements Liza Mundy as one of our foremost historians. This sweeping, authoritative account is, quite simply, the definitive history of women at the CIA. By turns enraging, inspiring, and insightful, Mundy has produced an absolute epic, deftly and sensitively handling the unsung stories of her remarkable on-the-record sources with a beautiful eye for detail and astute grasp of global events. Here is the fascinating, the dramatic, the personal, the colorful: Mundy has granted us a front-row seat to history. Ignore this book—and these astonishing women—at your peril.”
—Kate Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The Radium Girls and The Woman They Could Not Silence
“Liza Mundy is a prodigious reporter and a wonderful writer who has uncovered the stories of the female spies and analysts who helped make the CIA what it is today. The Sisterhood is the extraordinary, hitherto untold story of those women.”
—Peter Bergen, bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden
“The Sisterhood is a rip-roaring read about spycraft and the CIA’s inner workings that rewrites and enlarges the history of America’s iconic intelligence service. Mundy’s indefatigable reporting has unearthed an inspiring group portrait of extraordinary CIA women whose careers are multi-sided profiles in courage. They put their lives on the line in public service while navigating appalling sexism at the office—and gradually changed the CIA for the better.”
—Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars
“Liza Mundy has given us an indispensable history, untold until now, of the rise of women at the CIA—and how their hard-fought ascension to power from lowly clerks to the top of the chain of command shaped America’s national security. The Sisterhood has stellar reporting, sparkling writing, and shocking revelations of power struggles inside the world’s most famous secret intelligence service.”
—Tim Weiner, National Book Award-winning author of Legacy of Ashes
“A masterful work of literary journalism. Liza Mundy’s The Sisterhood reveals the secret lives of a cadre of CIA female intelligence officers—their triumphs and their tragedies—all the while doing double duty to break boundaries of gender and work-place presumption. As compelling as it is comprehensive, The Sisterhood is a must read for anyone interested in national security, secrets, and the CIA.”
—Annie Jacobsen, New York Times bestselling author of Surprise, Kill, Vanish