Автор: Kati Marton
Название: True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2017
ISBN: 9781476763774 / 1476763771
Язык: English
Формат: epub
Размер: 13,6 mb
Страниц: 304
True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American who spied for Stalin during the 1930s and forties. Later, a pawn in Stalin’s sinister master strategy, Field was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his own Communist comrades.
How does an Ivy League-educated, US State Department employee, deeply rooted in American culture and history, become a hardcore Stalinist? The 1930s, when Noel Field joined the secret underground of the International Communist Movement, were a time of national collapse. Communism promised the righting of social and political wrongs and many in Field’s generation were seduced by its siren song. Few, however, went as far as Noel Field in betraying their own country.
With a reporter’s eye for detail, and a historian’s grasp of the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century, Kati Marton, in a “relevant…fascinating…vividly reconstructed” (The New York Times Book Review) account, captures Field’s riveting quest for a life of meaning that went horribly wrong. True Believer is supported by unprecedented access to Field family correspondence, Soviet Secret Police records, and reporting on key players from Alger Hiss, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and World War II spy master, “Wild Bill” Donovan—to the most sinister of all: Josef Stalin. “Relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it can take one to” (Publishers Weekly), True Believer is “riveting reading” (USA TODAY), an astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carr?.
Preface: The Capture of Minds
Introduction: The Trap
CHAPTER 1 A Swiss Childhood
CHAPTER 2 America
CHAPTER 3 The Making of a Radical
CHAPTER 4 The Convert
CHAPTER 5 Spy Games
CHAPTER 6 Spies in Flight
CHAPTER 7 Desperate Comrades
CHAPTER 8 Spain
CHAPTER 9 War
CHAPTER 10 Marseille
CHAPTER 11 The Spy in Wartime
CHAPTER 12 Child of the Century
CHAPTER 13 Cold Peace
CHAPTER 14 Man without a Country—1948
CHAPTER 15 The End of the Line
CHAPTER 16 Bloodlust Again
CHAPTER 17 Kidnapped
CHAPTER 18 Two More Fields Disappear
CHAPTER 19 Erica Falls in the Net
CHAPTER 20 The Prisons Open
CHAPTER 21 Still Not Free
CHAPTER 22 The Age of Suspicion
CHAPTER 23 Twilight Years
CHAPTER 24 Prague
CHAPTER 25 Home at Last
CHAPTER 26 The Stranger
Photographs
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
About Kati Marton
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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