Family of spies: inside the John Walker spy ring

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Bantam Books, Jul 1, 1989 - True Crime - 465 pages
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For seventeen years, John Walker sold many of America's most vital secrets to the Soviets, using accomplices and even members of his own family to help him do his dirty work. Here is the whole story--told in Walker's own words--that exposes the most important spy operation in KGB history.

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"Of all the spies in America,'' said John Walker's KGB handler, "you, John, are the best!'' In this journalistic account Earley (a former Washington Post staff writer) examines up close the evolution ... Read full review

Contents

PART TWO THE PAST
21
PART THREE TRAI TOR
55
PART FOUR FAMILY
197
Copyright

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Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring
Pete Earley
Snippet view - 1988
Family of spies: inside the John Walker spy ring
Pete Earley
Snippet view - 1989

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About the author (1989)

Pete Earley is a former Washington Post reporter and winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar for Best Fact Crime Book in 1996 for" Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town," His book, which also won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, helped free an innocent man from Alabama's death row. Earley's account of the John Walker spy ring, "Family of Spies," was a New York Times bestseller and CBS mini-series." The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison" was a national bestseller and was based on a year that Earley spent inside a maximum security federal prison as an author.
Born in Arizona, Earley was reared in Colorado and worked for newspapers in Kansas and Oklahoma before moving to the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C., where he lives with his wife, Patti. They have seven children.

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TitleFamily of spies: inside the John Walker spy ring
Sekretnye missii
AuthorPete Earley
Editionreissue, reprint
PublisherBantam Books, 1989
ISBN0553282220, 9780553282221
Length465 pages
Subjects › 

Espionage
Espionage, Soviet
Espionage/ Soviet Union/ History/ 20th century
Espionage/ United States/ History/ 20th century
True Crime / Espionage
  
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