Spies : the secret showdown between America and Russia / Marc Favreau.

Title:

ISBN:

9780316545921

Personal Author:

Favreau, Marc, 1968-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

Physical Description:

306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents:

Prologue: Seeing ghosts -- Part 1: Enemies. The defector -- The spy hunters -- The double -- Part 2: Deep freeze. Capital of the Cold War -- The pilot -- Missiles -- Part 3: Stalemate. Moscow rules -- War games -- The year of the spy -- Part 4: Thaw. The man without a face -- Epilogue: Mole hunt -- Acknowledgments -- KGB: key facts -- CIA: key facts -- Russian espionage since the end of the Cold War -- The CIA since the end of the Cold War -- Cold War timeline -- Cold War glossary -- Glossary of key espionage techniques.

Summary:

"An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape in ways that are still felt today"-- Provided by publisher.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader UG 8.8 9 511772

Corporate Subject:

United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History.

KGB -- History.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States

Subject Term:

Spies--United States -- History 20th century

Spies--Soviet Union -- History.