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The Spymaster.
by Donald Freed
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0877952116
- ISBN 13
- 9780877952114
- Seller
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Oregon City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY Arbor House Publishing Co. , 1980. Hardcover First Edition [1980], unstated, in accordance with Arbor House's customary practice at the time of publication. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First Edition [1980], unstated, in accordance with Arbor House's customary practice at the time of publication. Near Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows only minor shelfwear; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. Shows a couple of minor flaws; but remains a handsome copy: clean, sturdy, and quite presentable: in fact, in overall appearance, remains close to 'As New'. The DJ shows a tiny nick at head of backstrip; some toning to white background field of the panels; the price is unclipped; mylar-protected. Overall, virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.5 x 6.5 x 1.65 inches). 467 pages. Language: English. Weight: 1 pound, 14 ounces. Hardback with DJ. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Synopsis
With this novel, the author of Inquest and Executive Action has managed fiction-created-from-fact that transcends and informs fact--an electrifying saga of a remarkable man's public and private lives that is perhaps to the secret world of spydom what The Godfather was to organized crime. The Spymaster is Vivian T. Prescott, an American golden boy out of Yale's holy-of-holies. Skull and Bones, chum of Jack Kennedy, athlete, lover, son of FDR's confidant...then with Wild Bill Donovan's World War II OSS, going up against Heydrich and even Hitler...Cold War go-between to masterspy Gehlen...nemesis of J. Edgar Hoover...and finally Director of Central Intelligence.His life and career encompass the "mole" Kim Philby, the Rosenbergs, the U-2 crisis and the Bay of Pigs...a story that projects who really plotted the Kennedy and King assassinations, and what JFK would have done about the CIA and the Vietnam war had he lived. It dramtically poses who was in truth running the secret government in the United States--a CIA faction that infiltrated Nixon's reelection committee, and went out of control behind the chaos of Watergate, almost tearing the country asunder...more intrigues than one ever suspected--with Kissinger, the coverups, the tapes, the tricks, the FBI...Vivian Prescoot, Spymaster, was also a man whose desire for one woman shrouded a profound and secret grief for another, and whose life, like his country's, was a torrent of surprise, betrayal and heroic promise.From Boson Books comes this epic story of the shocking secret America behind and beyond the facts as reported in the last 35 years.
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 48937
- Title
- The Spymaster.
- Author
- Donald Freed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition [1980], unstated, in accordance with Arbor House&#
- ISBN 10
- 0877952116
- ISBN 13
- 9780877952114
- Publisher
- Arbor House Publishing Co. ,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1980.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction Firsts; Signed Fiction; Historical Fiction; War Fiction; Cold War;
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