What happens when a father asks his son to lie for the
greater good?

Growing up, Scott Johnson always suspected that his dad was
different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a
spy, one of the CIA’s most trusted officers. And, as Scott came to realise, his father had been living a double life for so long that his lies were hard to separate from the truth.
When an adult Scott embarked on a career as a war correspondent, he
found himself returning to many of the troubled countries of his youth.
In the dusty streets of Pakistan and Afghanistan, amid the cold
urbanity of Yugoslavia, and down the mysterious alleys of Mexico City,
he came face to face with his father’s murky past — and his own
complicity in it.
The Wolf and the Watchman is a provocative, meditative reckoning on
truth, deception, and manipulation, and the fidelities we owe to
ourselves and to our families.