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DAVID MCCLOSKEY
Ex-CIA | Author | Speaker
David McCloskey is the author of The Seventh Floor, Moscow X, and Damascus Station. He is a former CIA analyst and former consultant at McKinsey & Company.
While at the CIA, he wrote regularly for the President’s Daily Brief, delivered classified testimony to Congressional oversight committees, and briefed senior White House officials, Ambassadors, military officials, and Arab royalty.
He worked in CIA field stations across the Middle East throughout the Arab Spring and conducted a rotation in the Counterterrorism Center focused on the jihad in Syria and Iraq. During his time at McKinsey, David advised national security, aerospace, and transportation clients on a range of strategic and operational issues.
David holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, where he specialized in energy policy and the Middle East.
He lives in Texas with his wife and three children.
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"[A] gripping, fast-paced plot that includes realistic, cutting-edge tradecraft and action. The Seventh Floor ... will cement McCloskey’s reputation as the best contemporary spy novelist."
― General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Commander of the Surge in Iraq, US Central Command, and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, and former Director of the CIA
"The Seventh Floor is a John le Carré-level game of cat and mouse. It could have only been written by someone like David McCloskey, who has an insider’s sharp angle. Read this terrific novel and watch this writer."
― David Baldacci
"A rare combination of experience and talent."
― Mick Herron, author of The Secret Hours and the Slough House series
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The Seventh Floor
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Moscow X
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Damascus Station