My Life in CIA

"Harry Mathews is the only American author I know whose utter originality does not erode his heart and his content." — Ned Rorem

"One of the most remarkable prose stylists presently writing in English." — San Francisco Chronicle

"It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr. Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities." — Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive Activity in the German Democratic Republic