Spytime The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton : A Novel
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James Jesus Angleton was an enigma, a secretive man whose power was at its peak during the height of the Cold War. Founder of U.S. counter-intelligence, hunter of moles and foes of America, his name has become synonymous with skulduggery and subterfuge. Angleton pursued his enemies, real and imagined, with a cool, calculating intelligence. Eventually convinced that there was a turncoat within the highest reaches of the U.S. government, Angleton turned all of his considerable skills to finding and exposing him. The result was a near-victory for U.S. Intelligence-and total defeat for himself. A brilliant re-creation of a world that included Soviet defectors, the infamous traitors Burgess, MacLean, and Philby, and American presidents from Truman to Carter, Spytime traces the making-and unmaking-of a man without a peer and, at the end, a man without a country to serve.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780156011242 |
Publisher: | HMH Books |
Imprint: | Mariner Books |
Pub date: | 17 Jan 2002 |
DEWEY: | 813.54 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 314 |
Weight: | 363g |
Height: | 203mm |
Width: | 135mm |
Spine width: | 21mm |