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Outsmart Everyone

How the Secrets of Spycraft Can Give You an Edge in Work and Life

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By Andrew Bustamante

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On Sale
Sep 8, 2026
Page Count
288 pages
Publisher
Little Brown Spark
ISBN-13
9780316572170

Price

$29.00

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$39.00 CAD

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  1. Hardcover $29.00 $39.00 CAD
  2. ebook $14.99 $19.99 CAD

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For readers of Never Split the Difference and What Every Body Is Saying, learn how to adopt top-secret spy skills to gain an unfair advantage in business and life.

Information is the lifeblood of spycraft, and the key to unlocking opportunity, influence, and freedom in everyday life. But in a world of infinite newsfeeds and data sources and AI-generated search results, the most powerful person in the room isn’t the person with the most information, or even the best information. It’s the person who knows how to turn that information into knowledge.
This is what intelligence operatives do better than anyone on earth—and ex-CIA officer Andrew Bustamante is here to tell you how. Packed with high octane stories from his seven years undercover and practical strategies the CIA doesn’t want you to know about, OUTSMART EVERYONE reveals how to:
  Cut through information overload and transform raw data into actionable insight
  Detect lies and hidden agendas by reading people like a professional interrogator
  Build powerful networks using the same methods CIA uses to recruit foreign assets
  Navigate complex human dynamics to get an edge in negotiations, networking, and teamwork
  Separate signal from noise to notice what others miss and remember details others forget
  Master the art of asking questions to unlock human intelligence
  And much more
These are the same elite skills that CIA operatives use to hunt terrorists, learn enemy secrets, cultivate sources, and stay alive. In this one-of-a-kind field guide, you’ll learn how to deploy to them win untold success, power, and influence in your everyday life.
 

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  • Praise for Shadow Cell:
  • "Shadow Cell rips the curtain off the modern spy game with the kind of insider access only two former CIA operatives could provide."
    Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Sky Mourning
  • “Hair-raising… an alluring crash-course on spycraft…the authors pack in plenty of suspense, providing the cliffhangers and paranoid atmosphere of a John le Carré novel.”
    Publishers Weekly

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Andrew Bustamante

About the Author

Andrew Bustamante is a former clandestine CIA intelligence officer and co-founder of EverydaySpy, a one-of-a-kind training platform for adapting the skills of intelligence operatives for business and life. He hosts the EverydaySpy Podcast, an iTunes top 100 podcast rated in the top .5% of all podcasts worldwide; serves as a go-to expert for international news and security issues; and is a highly sought-after public speaker and respected corporate consultant who has been featured by award-winning news outlets The Tampa Bay Times and Business Insider, major podcast platforms including Diary of a CEO and Lex Friedman, as well as international TV outlets including FOX, ABC, and the History Channel. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and decorated US Air Force combat veteran, he spent the bulk of his military career specializing in nuclear ICBM operations. After winning decorations in both Afghanistan and Iraq, he was recruited into CIA’s National Clandestine Service (NCS), where he served for seven years handling sensitive operations still classified Top Secret. Proud parents, Andrew and his wife Jihi left CIA to pursue a new mission: building their family and their company.

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