Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Operation Whisper – The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen

Autor Barnes Carr
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 mai 2016
Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher’s salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in the autumn of 1950, a trusted colleague knocked at their door, held up a finger for silence, then began scribbling a note: Go now. Leave the lights on, walk out, don’t look back. Born and raised in the Bronx and recruited to play football at Mississippi State, Morris Cohen fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and with the U.S. Army in World War II. He and his wife, Lona, were as American as football and fried chicken, but for one detail: they’d spent their entire adult lives stealing American military secrets for the Soviet Union. And not just any military secrets, but a complete working plan of the first atomic bomb, smuggled direct from Los Alamos to their Soviet handler in New York. Their associates Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who accomplished far less, had just been arrested, and the prosecutor wanted the death penalty. Did the Cohens wish to face the same fate? Federal agents were in the neighborhood, knocking on doors, getting close. So get out. Take nothing. Tell no one. In Operation Whisper, Barnes Carr tells the full, true story of the most effective Soviet spy couple in America, a pair who vanished under the FBI’s nose only to turn up posing as rare book dealers in London, where they continued their atomic spying. The Cohens were talented, dedicated, worldly spies—an urbane, jet-set couple loyal to their service and their friends, and very good at their work. Most people they met seemed to think they represented the best of America. The Soviets certainly thought so.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 13117 lei

Preț vechi: 14940 lei
-12% Nou

Puncte Express: 197

Preț estimativ în valută:
2511 2610$ 2082£

Carte indisponibilă temporar

Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781611688092
ISBN-10: 1611688094
Pagini: 338
Dimensiuni: 161 x 240 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University Press of New England

Notă biografică

BARNES CARR has been a newspaper and wire service reporter and editor in Mississippi, New York, Boston, Montreal, Memphis, New Orleans, and Washington, DC, covering some of the biggest stories of our time, from the capture of the Boston Strangler to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He is the recipient of a 2013 William Faulkner Gold Medal for fiction. A graduate of Tulane University, he has lived most of his life in New Orleans and now resides in Houston.

Cuprins

Preface • Introduction: The Long Twilight Struggle • PART I: RECRUITS • Security Matter C • Student Radical • Spain Calling • Dangerous Crossing • The Elite of the Internationals • Code Name Luis • PART II: PROFESSIONALS • Volunteer Activated • Ghouls and Dead Doubles • The Agent Who Never Was • A Balance of Terror • Mission to Albuquerque • All Networks Blown • A Grave Situation • Agents on the Run • PART III: MASTERS • Whispers of Suspicion • House of Secrets • Lock, Stock, and Barrel • A Macbeth Moment • A Most Disgraceful Case • Swaps and a Daring Escape • Afterword • Acknowledgments • Notes • Bibliography • Index

Recenzii

“The Cohens were the most effective Soviet spy couple in America, and vanished under the FBI's nose, turning up as rare book dealers in London, where they continued their atomic spying. This is their story.”