The quiet Americans : four CIA spies at the dawn of the Cold War--a tragedy in three acts
Item details
- ISBN: 9780385540452
- ISBN: 0385540450
- ISBN: 9781101911730
- ISBN: 1101911735
- ISBN: 9780385540469
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Physical Description:
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x, 562 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2020]
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-535) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Act 1: This sad and breathless moment. Operation Dogwood ; A demon inside me ; A man called Typhoid ; The wunderkind ; The man who could disappear ; The sentinel ; A lush lawlessness ; The quiet American ; A world blowing up ; An end to normal things -- Act 2: Heart and minds and dirty tricks. The mighty Wurlitzer and the royal dwarf ; Operation Rusty ; Ripe for revolt ; Finding "our guy" ; Witch hunt ; Operation Fiend ; War as a practical joke ; Tossing the dice -- Act 3: Crowding the enemy. An alarming enthusiasm ; Red Scare revived ; White knight ; Operation Success ; Those bastards out there ; Collapse. |
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