Book : The Spys Son The True Story Of The Highest-ranking...

-Titulo Original : The Spys Son The True Story Of The Highest-ranking Cia Officer Ever Convicted Of Espionage And The Son He Trained To Spy For Russia

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Grove Press

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Jim Nicholson earned the nickname “Batman” early in his spy career with the CIA. A talented case officer with a Rolex watch and hand-tailored suits, Jim’s elan and fierce patriotic streak shot him to stardom. He played cat-and-mouse with the KGB during Cold War postings in the Philippines, Thailand, and Japan, and then, when the Soviet Union collapsed, he ran spy operations against a new foe, the Russian SVR.Fourteen years after his first overseas assignment, mired in a messy divorce and custody battle, Jim’s superiors called him back to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. By day, he ran Middle East counterterrorism operations. By night, he was just another minivan-driving single dad racing home for dinner with his kids.But Jim had a secret. For two years, in exotic locales across the globe, he had sold his country’s deepest secrets to Russia. Jim turned over troves of classified documents and he blew the covers of countless officers-a betrayal that put lives in danger and destroyed careers. The CIA and FBI joined forces to catch him, mounting the only spy-versus-spy criminal investigation ever run under the roof of Langley. In 1997, Jim became the CIA’s highest-ranking officer convicted of espionage. Yet his duplicity didn’t stop there.While behind the bars of a federal prison in Oregon, the former mole systematically groomed the one person he trusted most to serve as his stand-in: his youngest son, Nathan, a broke college student in his early twenties. Deeply depressed after suffering a serious injury during Army training, Nathan was easy prey for his father. When Jim asked him to courier messages out of prison to his Russian contacts, Nathan saw an opportunity to prove himself and to make his father proud. But trespassing into the global spy word is a risky business and the chain of events that followed irreversibly changed their lives.The Spy’s Son goes inside the private meeting rooms of the FBI and CIA, delves into the post-Cold War intrigues between Moscow and Washington, and steps behind the closed doors of a family struggling to stay together. The culmination of a six-year investigation, Bryan Denson has masterfully crafted a high-speed, high-stakes account of this riveting true story of a father’s deception and a son’s loyalty, and the dire consequences that resulted from betraying both country and kin. Review In a stunning piece of reporting Denson has unraveled one of the strangest spy stories in American history and written a haunting book as fast-paced and as exciting as the best spy novel. It will keep readers awake as he takes them deep into a world of international espionage populated by KGB and CIA agents, American spy catchers, and a family theyll never forget -- and its all true. -- Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the SnowmanThe Spys Son is an intelligence services worst nightmare -- a double agent inside its walls. Human foibles of hubris and greed drive Jim Nicholson to betray his nations deepest secrets and his own family. Densons telling of the tale is riveting, agonizing, and, for a former spook like me, sometimes heart-stopping. -- Valerie Plame, author of Fair GameThe Spys Son expertly chronicles Jim Nicholsons cold-blooded betrayal of both country and son. A gripping nonfiction read on par with a John le Carre thriller. -- Pete Earley, author of Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames From the Author It took me five years to finish this book, but only because I wrote it. My goal was to write this true story in the style of a novelist. I hope that you find I succeeded and that the story thrills you in the reading as much as it did me in the writing. About the Author Bryan Denson, an investigative reporter and veteran staff writer for The Oregonian, is a Pulitzer Prize finalist in journalism for national reporting and for the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award, and the winner of the George Polk Award, amo