{"product_id":"sanity-check-paperback","title":"Sanity Check - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalt Breede\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I need a sanity check,\" said the President of the United States.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"What?\"\u003c\/i\u003e I said.\u003cbr\u003e \"The clowns in the Intelligence Community are so damned politicized that I have no idea whether what I'm getting is useful, actionable intelligence or political flapdoodle. So I need you to give it a sanity check.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e So begins math teacher and ex Naval Officer Alan Llewellyn's danger-fraught trek into the murky wilds of the U. S. Intelligence Community and the even more toxic forest of the Chinese Ministry of State Security. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003cb\u003eSanity Check\u003c\/b\u003e, Alan is hired by Jim Kehoe, his high school classmate and now President of the U.S., to form a small secret group to execute a \u003ci\u003esanity check\u003c\/i\u003e on material that Kehoe gets from the U.S. Intelligence Community. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While setting up his sub rosa group, Alan stumbles upon covert activities of China's intelligence service which has agents deep undercover in Richmond, Virginia. Action oscillates between clandestine espionage and bloody violence in this shadow-war.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalt Breede grew up in White Plains, New York. After leaving White Plains at the age of eighteen, he lived in Annapolis, Maryland, Northern Virginia, Southern California, Vietnam, Oklahoma, Central California, Japan, and Ankara, Turkey. He's been married to Elizabeth for nearly fifty years. They live in South Florida and have been blessed with five children and four grandchildren. Walt speaks Turkish, Italian, German, Uzbek and Azeri. He carried the torch for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics along with Bruce Jenner, Sarah Evans and Muhammed Ali. \"Sanity Check\" is his third novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 266\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53599543165293,"sku":"9781935991922","price":28.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/C5P_vlHcjx9781935991922.webp?v=1785024700","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/sanity-check-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}