Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2025-07-09
Books mentioned on The Raymond Allen Davis Incident
It's an open secret that not everything is as it seems in the world of diplomacy -- a great many individuals operate with some degree of subterfuge and invisibility. So what happens when things go wrong, and these often disturbing, unseen things become visible?
Ben Bowlin recommended The Contractor by Raymond Davis and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Contractor
The Contractor by Raymond Davis and Storms Reback is a memoir detailing the high profile experiences of a former American security contractor involved in a critical international incident in Pakistan.
Recommended“Just to recommend one source, you know, Ben, you've got the you can tell everybody the book that was actually written by Raven Davis. Uh there's a pretty long New York Magazine article from 2013 titled How a Spy Helped Turn Pakistan Against the United States. It's a pretty long read, but if you can gain access to that, we”
Where to get it
