The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the Fbi, and Industrial Espionage

by Mara Hvistendahl

Book Overview

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is convicted of trying to steal U.S. trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.

In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three neatly dressed Asian men at a cornfield that had been leased by Monsanto to grow corn from patented hybrids. What began as a routine inquiry into potential trespassing blossomed into a federal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073521428X
• ISBN13: 9780735214286
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"