Jason Matthews(1951-2021)

He met his future wife, who was also in the CIA, on an overseas assignment.

Being in the agency is a very experiential career, like being a policeman or a fireman or a jet pilot, and when it stops, it really stops. There are retiree groups that get together, mostly in Washington, and sit around and swap war stories, but I was living in California, and it was either write something or go fishing. [on becoming a writer after retiring from the CIA]