
Fair Game is a movie directed by Doug Liman in 2010 and based on the book Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame Wilson, first published in 2007. The movie features Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sam Shepard, Ty Burrell, Bruce McGill, Michael Kelly, and others.
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Book by Joseph Wilson
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Storyline
Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents. Due to his earlier diplomatic background in Niger, Wilson is approached by Plame’s CIA colleagues to travel there and glean information as to whether yellowcake uranium is being procured by Iraq for use in the construction of nuclear weapons.
Movie vs Book

Year
2010
Minutes
108
Movie Rate
6.80
Source: IMDb

Year
2007
Pages
411
Book Rate
7.04
S: Goodreads
Book
Fair Game
Subtitle: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
Author: Valerie Plame Wilson
Country: USA
First published in: 2007
Length: 411 pages
Genre: Biography
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“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That’s why we go to movies and say, “Oh, the book is better.”
PAULO COELHO (Writer)
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