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Nancy's Bookshelf: Adam Sikes drew on his experiences in the CIA to write an international spy thriller

Author Adam Sikes served in the US Marine Corps with combat tours in the Balkans, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Middle East. He then went on to work at the CIA and conduct operations in Central Asia, East Africa, and Europe.

Sikes is the author of the international espionage thriller Landslide and the co-author of the non-fiction Open Skies: My Life As Afghanistan's First Female Pilot.

Also, a new segment of The Writer's Room.

Episode #702

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Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.