Killer Spy: Inside Story of the Fbi's Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America's Deadliest Spy

by Peter Maas

Book Overview

In the waning days of the Cold War, Aldrich Ames systematically and cold bloodedly sent a dozen of the US's best agents to their death, betraying them to the Soviets for more than two million dollars. This is the story of how he was finally caught.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446602795
• ISBN13: 9780446602792
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Good Book

The book wa very interesting and had me excited to the end. Some of it was a little confusing and I felt like I missed parts, but overall the storyline was fun and it was fun to read about the allusive Ames. I was able to get into Ames very well. It seemed like it was a well told story of an some intersting events.

Keystone cops on assignment

This book is relatively short but it provides enough information on the subject. I also liked its matter of fact presentation of the events. But the truly amazing part is the "Keystone Cops" aspect of the whole affair. CIA and FBI joint task force identified Ames after the first real check of the financial status of possible sources, but it took 10 years of humiliating failures for this pretty routine investigation to get started. And after that initial success the team of top flight FBI agents experienced one snafu after another trying to catch Ames and his Russian handlers red-handed and finally gave it up.