The Accidental Joe: The Top-Secret Life of a Celebrity Chef

When the CIA approaches celebrity chef Sebastian Pike about using his award-winning food and culture travel show as cover for espionage, the outspoken bad-boy host says no. When they point out how roaming the globe interviewing foodies, heads of state, rock stars, journalists-in-exile, poets, subversives, supermodels-even the pope-gives him perfect cover, Pike smiles and says, "F@#! no."



They push. They'd embed their top agent in his crew to do the spy work.



And when romantic sparks crackle b...