BEST OF ENEMIES: The Last Great Spy Story of the…

BEST OF ENEMIES: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War. by Dezenhall, Eric and Gus Russo. < >

BEST OF ENEMIES: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War.

Edition: First printing.

New York & Boston: Twelve, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's counterintelligence office and Gennady out of the Soviet Embassy. Both men, already notorious iconoclasts within their respective agencies, were assigned to seduce the other into betraying his country in the urgent final days of the Cold War, but instead the men ended up becoming the best of friends." Recounts some of the most celebrated spy stories of the twentieth century, including the crucial discovery of the Soviet mole Robert Hanssen, and the 2010 Spy Swap which freed Gennady from Soviet imprisonment. Photographs in both full color and black and white, bibliography, index. 342 pp. ISBN: 978-1538761311.

Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 85861
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