True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy

True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy

â€œRelevant...fascinating...vividly reconstructed.â€ â€”The New York Times Book Review

â€œRiveting reading...a mesmerizing look at Cold War espionage.â€ â€”USA TODAY

This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le CarrÃ©, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to.

True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American, spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then, a pawn in Stalinâ€™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: ten million Americans unemployed, rampant racism, retreat from the world just as fascism was gaining ground, and Washingtonâ€”pre FDRâ€”parched of fresh ideas. Communism promised the righting of social and political wrongs and many in Fieldâ€™s generation were seduced by its siren song. Few, however, went as far as Noel Field in betraying their own country.

With a reporterâ€™s eye for detail, and a historianâ€™s grasp of the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century, Kati Marton captures Fieldâ€™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, â€œWild Billâ€ Donovanâ€”to the most sinister of all: Josef Stalin. A story of another time, this is a tale relevant for all times.
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-09-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-09-06
Format	Kindle eBook

True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy

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