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Hardcover The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage Book

ISBN: 0671245600

ISBN13: 9780671245603

The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage

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Book Overview

This fascinating account of how two young Americans turned traitor during the Cold War is an "absolutely smashing real-life spy story" (The New York Times Book Review). At the height of the Cold War, some of the nation's most precious secrets passed through a CIA contractor in Southern California. Only a handful of employees were cleared to handle the intelligence that came through the Black Vault. One of them was Christopher John Boyce, a hard-partying genius with a sky-high IQ, a passion for falconry, and little love for his country. Security at the Vault was so lax, Boyce couldn't help but be tempted. And when he gave in, the fate of the free world would hang in the balance. With the help of his best friend, Andrew Daulton Lee, a drug dealer with connections south of the border, Boyce began stealing classified documents and selling them to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. It was an audacious act of treason, committed by two spoiled young men who were nearly always drunk, stoned, or both--and were about to find themselves caught in the middle of a fight between the CIA and the KGB. This Edgar Award-winning book was the inspiration for the critically acclaimed film starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn--a true story as thrilling as any dreamed up by Ian Fleming or John le Carr?. Before Edward Snowden, there were Boyce and Lee, two of the most unlikely spies in the history of the Cold War. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Customer Reviews

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Rated 5 stars
Stumbling Into High Treason

Of all the major spy stories to break open in the last thirty years, the case of John Boyce and Andrew Dalton Lee has to take the prize and the most troubling in its larger implications. Other spies like Aldrich Ames or Robert Hanssen were disillusioned middle aged bureucrats whose spying was an outlet for their frustration as well as a source of additional income. Boyce and Dalton, however, were young men who blundered...

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Rated 5 stars
The Cold Falcon

Robert Lindsey's "The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of friendship and Espionage" was a true story about Chris Boyce and Andrew Dalton and how they were selling secrets to the Soviets in the middle of the cold war. You see how simple this was, how they did it, and why they did it. I can't tell you much more with out giving something away. Once you pick it up you can't put it down.

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Rated 5 stars
The Real Nightmare of a Seventies Tragedy

At the southern tip of L.A. there's a bridge across the harbor. On one side it's beautiful, the other leads to Terminal Island, a federal prison. Boyce and Lee grew up on the beautiful side and ended up in the hell of a prison cell. Lindsey's book tells how. They did it, but to read of their journey downward is frightful when one considers the extreme differences the two sides of the bridge represent. And the book is much...

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Rated 4 stars
Even better than the movie.

I read this book about four or five years ago, after I saw the film with Timothy Hutton (also very good). I'm only 20 so this story was a little before my time but... In any event I found it fascinating. Lindsey portrays these men honestly and without judgement butwith great insight. You won't be able to put it down. Also good, if not better, Lindsey's Flight of the Falcon, about Boyce's brief escape from prison.

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Rated 5 stars
Was the book that put my espionage reading in hyperdrive.

Read this book 15 years ago (in '83). Found it so captivating that ...you know, one of those that unable to put down. For whatever reason of its good balance, or exceptionally well-written true intrigue, or savvy description of the Minox toys of the game - I still hold this work as the benchmark of spy stories. Though decades old now, still, the consequences of the Boyce/Lee crimes do have a present day saliency. Moreover,...

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