{"product_id":"9781547165476","title":"A Less Vivid Future: Original Release","description":"Oh, how hard it is to do the right thing!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Follow the Analyst as he navigates the philosophical challenges, intellectual puzzles and growing mission creep of nominating kill\/capture targets for Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan. Stay with the Analyst as he is brought into a highly classified, futuristic program that puts him front and center in watching his recommendations play out in real time, forced to confront the consequences of his too-clever-by-half methodologies. How will he change? Or will he?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Approved for public release by the US Department of Defense, A Less Vivid Future sits at the intersection of leadership and failure, of agency and structure: how hard it is to do the right thing, when the pressures in place are defining success in a way you know is fundamentally wrong. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 2015, J. Edward Conway co-wrote the textbook for conducting intelligence analysis in combat zones; A Less Vivid Future is the fictional, conceptual challenge to the assumptions that underlie that work.","brand":"CreateSpace Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48508606284017,"sku":"9781547165476","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781547165476_p0.jpg?v=1786091873","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781547165476","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}