Mark Henshaw Interview: The Last Man in Tehran; CIA, Red Teams, and Secrecy

Mark is a decorated CIA analyst with fifteen years of service. He is the recipient of eighteen (18) Exceptional Performance Awards and the Director of National Intelligence's 2007 Galileo Award for innovation in intelligence analysis. Click here to read his Galileo-winning co-authored paper.

Mark holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science (BYU '95) and master's degrees in Business Administration (BYU Marriott School of Management) and International Relations (BYU Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies '99). He is a graduate of the Sherman Kent School's Advanced Analyst Program.

In his new thriller, new Red Cell Chief Kyra Stryker has barely settled into the job when an attack on an Israeli port throws the Middle East into chaos. The Mossad — Israel’s feared intelligence service — responds with a campaign of covert sabotage and assassination, determined to protect the homeland. But evidence quickly turns up suggesting that a group of moles inside Langley are helping Mossad wage its covert war.

Convinced that Mossad has heavily penetrated the CIA’s leadership, the FBI launches a counterintelligence investigation that threatens to cripple the Agency, and anyone who questions the official story is suspect. With few officials willing to help for fear of getting accused, Kyra turns to her former mentors — now-retired Red Cell Chief Jonathan Burke and his wife, former CIA Director Kathryn Cooke — to help uncover who is trying to tear the CIA apart from the inside out.