Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames - Softcover

Earley, Pete

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425167127 ISBN 13: 9780425167120

Publisher: Berkley Trade, 1998

Synopsis

Based on exclusive interviews with Aldrich Ames, the author of the best-seller, Family of Spies, recounts the double agent's career and capture, and the ineptitude of the CIA that allowed him to elude detection. Reprint.

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About the Author

Pete Earley, a former reporter for The Washington Post, is the author of seven works of nonfiction, including the bestsellers The Hot House and Family of Spies, and the multi-award-winning Circumstantial Evidence. According to the Washingtonian magazine, he is one of ten journalist/authors in America "who have the power to introduce new ideas and give them currency." Earley is also the author of two novels.

From AudioFile

Double agent Aldrich Ames fed the KGB sensitive information for many years, resulting in the death of many U.S. agents in Russia. By way of rare and invaluable interviews, Pete Earley has formulated the most accurate and detailed summary of the events that led to Ames's arrest. Edward Holland painstakingly guides the listener through the complicated web of Ames's life, from his early experiences in Burma with his double agent/professor father to his ultimate arrest. Holland's grandfatherly narration of Ames's transcendence from wide-eyed schoolboy to frustrated and self-justifying double agent almost convinces the listener that Earley was simply sick and tired of participating in a world of bureaucratic incompetence and hypocrisy. This sympathetic interpretation depicts a man who lost the meaning and purpose of his work and, ultimately, his direction in life. B.J.P. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Trade
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0425167127
• ISBN 13: 9780425167120
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368