Spy Who Got Away

by David Wise

Book Overview

Espionage, American Studies, Soviet Studies This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039456281X
• ISBN13: 9780394562810
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

PAST AS PRESENT

ALTHOUGH THIS IS HISTORY, A LARGELY UNKNOWN HISTORY, IT STILL HAS RELEVANCE TODAY. THE MENTALITY OF MANY FBI AGENTS IS STILL INFLUENCED BY THIS CASE. ADD TO THAT THE INFLUENCE OF THE "WAR ON TERROR" AND YOU HAVE A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION THAT COULD AFFECT MANY "ORDINARY" US CITIZENS.

Exellent!

This was a very interesting book for me to read because Edward Lee Howard's son lives by me and goes to school with my sister. I also think it was very informative on how he got away.

detailed but fascinating

Knowing that a book is non-fiction always adds a greater sense of mystery and wonder, which is certainly true about this account of an American intelligence agent who defected to Russia. It is obvious that the author spend a great deal of time researching every aspect of the subject in addition to the intelligence agency in general. THere are a lot of amazing details about the CIA, FBI, and KGB that are told through this story. Some of the long descriptions may bore some readers, but I found the novel to be very well written and very interesting.