This Week’s Guest: VALERIE PLAME WILSONFormer CIA Operations Officer & NY Times Best-Selling Author· Highly Trained In The Field of Nuclear Proliferation· Leader - Global Zero, An International Movement To Eliminate The Global Nuclear Threat

Quote:"Great storytelling, real insider authenticity, and above all a fascinating main character in Vanessa Pierson. And maybe those initials are not a coincidence—sometimes fiction can reveal things that nonfiction can't." -- Lee Child (The Jack Reacher Novels)

 -- This week's guest on "Report from Santa Fe" is Valerie Plame Wilson, the former United States CIA Operations Officer and the author of “Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House,” a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA.

Currently, she is co-writing best-selling spy thrillers with the accomplished author Sarah Lovett. Plame discusses their second thriller, Burned. Their first novel, Blowback, received rave reviews. The books draw upon Plame's knowledge of spycraft and experiences in the field, delivered in a fictional format, and revealing in a most thrilling way the heroism and the challenge that working undercover represents. Plame shares how her CIA career - including assignments in counterproliferation operations - enables her to recreate the faced-paced world of spy-versus-spy.

Valerie Plame has put her hard-won intelligence experience expertly to work with her latest spy thriller Burned. Vanessa Piersen, the hero of Valerie Plame’s thriller series, is a CIA Ops Officer that Plame describes as a “younger, smarter version of me.”

This red-hot spy novel is ripped from today's headlines, with elements of ISIS and ISIL and extreme religious fundamentalism from the Christian Right as well as Islam. Plame uses her knowledge and experience with the issue of nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation to provide riveting details of the dangers our world faces, especially when nuclear materials get into the hands of extremists.

Plame hits the bulls-eye with her behind-the-scenes knowledge of our intelligence agencies and the realms of espionage and counter-espionage. She discusses America's use of torture, and explores the complex issues raised by the Edward Snowden disclosures. This interview traces the tension between security and privacy in our modern world of electronic surveillance.

Highly trained in the field of nuclear proliferation, Plame Wilson continues this important work openly today. She is a leader in Global Zero, an international movement to eliminate the global nuclear threat. Not only does she address terrorism and the escalating nuclear arms race, but she also discusses Chernobyl and Fukushima. In terms of the nuclear issue, she reveals, “If we don’t get this one right, really nothing else matters.”