The explosive, never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB
spy in the top ranks of the CIA, revealing how spies blinded the US to
the rise of Putin and Russia's dangerous future, from New York Times
bestselling author and former CIA officer Robert Baer
We think we know all the Cold War's greatest spy stories. The tales of
America's greatest traitors have been told over and over. However, the
biggest story of them all remains untold--until now. Rumors have long
swirled of another mole in American intelligence, one perhaps more
damaging than all the others combined. Perhaps the greatest traitor in
American history, perhaps a Russian ruse to tear the CIA apart, or
perhaps nothing more than a bogeyman, he is often referred to as the
Fourth Man.
Blowing the lid off the biggest spy story in decades, Robert Baer tells
the full, gripping story for the first time. After arrest of KGB spy
Aldrich Ames, the CIA launched another investigation to make sure there
wasn't another double agent in its ranks. Led by three of the CIA's best
spy hunters, women who devoted their lives to counterintelligence, its
existence was known only to a few. They began methodically investigating
their own bosses and colleagues, turning up loose threads, suspicious
activity, and shocking intelligence from the CIA's best Russian asset.
In the end, they came to a startling conclusion that, whether true or
not, would shake American intelligence to its core, setting the stage
for a cat-and-mouse game with enormous geopolitical stakes. Spies and
moles may seem like bygone cold war history, but with Russia again a
misunderstood belligerent power, the skeletons America would rather keep
hidden are emerging, and as Robert Baer shows in this thrilling
masterwork of investigative reporting, they matter as much now as
ever.
