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In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may have ended, but another one has already begun, against an enemy that is bigger, smarter, and more vicious: the Soviet Union. "From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War-and a different...

Presents a vivid history of Berlin while also attempting to answer how a people as civilized, ordered, and religious as the Germans supported first a Kaiser and then the Nazis in inflicting such misery on Europe.

"In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life; years later she's gruesomely murdered along with her husband, and her daughter begins to chase down these startling secrets from her past. West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and...

Yale graduate Edward Wilson sacrifices his family and his ideals in his devotion to his country and the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency. As one of the covert founders of the CIA, Cold War paranoia makes Edward Wilson grow suspicious of everyone around him; he will sacrifice anything to protect the organization and his country.

When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.

Featuring black-and-white historical photographs, a timely examination of the Cold War and the relevance of Communism in today's world includes coverage of the McCarthy hearings, the Hollywood Ten, and the cases of the Rosenbergs and the Scottsboro Boys.