Dead doubles : the extraordinary worldwide hunt for one of the Cold War's most notorious spy rings / Trevor Barnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Trevor, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lonsdale, Gordon, 1922-1970.

Lonsdale, Gordon.

Kroger, Peter.

Kroger, Helen.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.

Soviet Union.

Espionage, Soviet--Great Britain.

Espionage, Soviet.

Spies.

Great Britain.

Espionage, Soviet--United States.

United States.

Spies--Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

xviii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]

Summary:

An account of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War traces the 1961 international manhunt for five Soviet spies whose activities exposed the shadowy world of deep-cover KGB operatives.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Investigation

1. Code-name `Reverberate'

2. Code-name `Last Act'

3. Code-name `Killjoys'

4. Code-name `Sniper'

pt. Two Morris and Lona Cohen

5. The FBI hunt for the Cohens

pt. Three Trial

6. `One of the most disgraceful cases to come before this court'

pt. Four Inquest

7. Anatomy of a spy scandal

pt. Five Prison and Spy Swaps

8. Gordon Lonsdale

9. The Krogers

10. Houghton and Gee

pt. Six Russian Versions of the Truth

11. Konon Molody in Moscow

12. Konon Molody - the spy

13. The Cohens in Moscow

14. The Cohens as spies

15. Houghton and Gee - life after prison

16. Houghton and Gee as spies.

Notes:

"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-316) and index.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: 9781474609104 Barnes, Trevor, 1955- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020

ISBN:

9780062856999

0062856995

OCLC:

1192461668