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Favreau, Marc, 1968-

Spies : the secret showdown between America and Russia / Marc Favreau. - First edition. - 306 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [272-293) and index.

Prologue: Seeing ghosts -- The defector -- The spy hunters -- The double -- Capital of the Cold War -- The pilot -- Missiles -- Moscow rules -- War games -- The year of the spy -- The man without a face -- Epilogue: Molehunt.

"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"--

ISBN: 9780316545921 0316545929

LCCN: 2019005698

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB9D3293 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 019494104 Uk

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency --History--20th century.
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvenno�i bezopasnosti --History.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Spies--History--United States--20th century.
Spies--History.--Soviet Union
Espionage, American--History--20th century
Espionage, Soviet--History
Cold War

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States

LC Class. No.: UB271.U5 / F38 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 327.127304709/045