Overview
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 Stalinās 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 Fieldās generation were seduced by its siren song. Few, however, went as far as Noel Field in betraying their own country.
With a reporterās eye for detail, and a historianās grasp of the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century, Kati Marton, in a ārelevantā¦fascinatingā¦vividly reconstructedā (The New York Times Book Review) account, captures Fieldās 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, āWild Billā Donovanāto the most sinister of all: Josef Stalin. āRelevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it can take one toā (Publishers Weekly), True Believer is āriveting readingā (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 CarrĆ©.
This book title, True Believer (Stalin's Last American Spy), ISBN: 9781476763774, by Kati Marton, published by Simon & Schuster (September 19, 2017) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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