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BEARDEN, MILTON, AND RISEN, JAMES The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
New York, Random House. 2003. (ISBN: 0679463097) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 560 pp. [16] pp. of plates, illus. biblio. index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them. / A thirty-year veteran of the CIA's clandestine services, Milt Bearden was chief of the Soviet/East European Division at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union. As CIA chief in Pakistan, he supplied the Afghan freedom fighters who overthrew the Soviets. He received the Donovan Award and the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA's highest honor. He is featured in the Discovery Channel's Secret Warriors and the BBC's Covert Action. He was born in Oklahoma and spent his childhood in Washington State, where his father worked on the Manhattan Project. He served in the Air Force before joining the CIA in 1964 and currently lives outside Washington, D.C. with his French-born wife. James Risen covers national security for The New York Times. He was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2002 for coverage of September 11 and terrorism, and he is coauthor of Wrath of Angels. He lives outside Washington, D.C. with his wife and three sons." - Publisher. Fine/Fine.
Offered for US$ 15.00 by: Left Coast Books - Book number: 054673
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