The Monkey Handlers Liddy, G. Gordon

G. Gordon Liddy — yes, *that* Liddy, the Watergate mastermind who served four and a half years in federal prison — wrote a spy thriller. And it's exactly as unhinged as you'd hope. A covert CIA operation goes sideways when experimental subjects (codenamed "monkeys") break loose, leaving handlers scrambling to contain both the chaos and the cover-up. Liddy knows the shadowy machinery of government operations from the inside, and he uses that knowledge to build a taut, paranoid narrative where loyalty is currency and everyone's expendable. The prose is tight, the action relentless, and the moral landscape appropriately murky. This isn't a redemption arc or a tell-all — it's Liddy doing what he does best: operating in the dark. For fans of early Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, or anyone who wants their espionage fiction written by someone who actually broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters.