Good alternative link to Intelligence reads published today in the Sources and Methods blog. As noted, these books might not be the typical ones you read for intelligence studies. I can certainly confirm this. I’ve been slowly working my way through the standard textbooks on intelligence work as we develop our program here in the iSchool and I can safely say that if you imagine intelligence work to be dry, method-bound, and slow moving, these books will serve the stereotype. Of course, intelligence work is so much more, but you have a hard time knowing this from the most commonly recommended books on the topic. Please someone, submit a proposal to me for a better book. I’ve decided to push people at Susan Hasler’s Intelligence: a novel of the CIA, as an alternative window. The work seems mind-numbing at times in this too but you get a sense of how it works on a human level far better than most textbooks suggest.