In the waning days of the Cold War, Aldrich Ames cold-bloodedly sent a dozen of the U.S.'s best double agents to their deaths, betraying them to the Soviets for $2 million. Now, America's premier true crime author exposes how the FBI finally caught up with this perfidious traitor after he managed to slip through the CIA's own censors for eight years. Photos.
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In the waning days of the Cold War, Aldrich Ames cold-bloodedly sent a dozen of the U.S.'s best double agents to their deaths, betraying them to the Soviets for $2 million. Now, America's premier true crime author exposes how the FBI finally caught up with this perfidious traitor after he managed to slip through the CIA's own censors for eight years. Photos.
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New in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. New York: Warner, 1995. First edition. 8vo. Black quarter cloth over dark green boards, silver lettering and publisher's logo on spine, illustrated with black and white photographs, 243 pp. With the full cooperation of the FBI, author Maas goes behind the headlines and provides us with an exclusive hour-by-hour, often minute-by-minute account of how the FBI counterintelligence agents, despite setbacks and mishaps, never gave up as they closed in on Ames and his Colombian-born wife. Killer Spy reveals what happens next. Book in new, unread condition with a near-fine dust jacket; protected by a mylar cover.