Jonna Mendez

I wasn't sure how that would work.

But that was a brief moment.

I was scared to death.

I almost couldn't breathe.

My heart was racing.

My pulse was pounding.

I was cold, but I had sweat running down my back.

My heart was in my ears.

I had never been that close to that kind of evil, and it simply was stunning.

And while I sat there frozen, he broke that look, turned on his heels with his guards, and walked out into the lobby.

And I watched him go, and I thought, this is what luck looks like.

If you ever think you're lucky, that was the day that I thought I was lucky.

Doing the kind of work that I did cost me a lot of things.

It cost me a lot of friends.

None of my neighbors, none of my friends back then knew what I did, where I was, who I worked for.

It's probably one of the reasons that a lot of people at the CIA

We marry each other.

We know who we can trust, and they're the people inside that building with us.

Over the years, I changed.

When I first came to CIA, I was a young female officer looking for a job, something worth doing, something that would make a difference.