True believer : Stalin's last American spy / Kati Marton.
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TextPublisher: New York London Toronto : Simon & Schuster, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: x, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781476763767 (hardcover : alkaline paper); 9781476763774 (paperback : alkaline paper)Subject(s): Field, Noel Haviland, 1904-1970 | Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Friends and associates | Spies -- United States -- Biography | Communists -- United States -- Biography | Espionage, Soviet -- United States -- History | United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945Genre/Form: Biographies. DDC classification: 327.12092 | B LOC classification: E743.5.F47 | M37 2016Scope and content: "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American, spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then a pawn in Stalin's 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: ten million Americans unemployed, rampant racism, retreat from the world just as fascism was gaining ground, and Washington--pre FDR--parched of fresh ideas. Communism promised the righting of social and political wrongs and many in Field's generation were seduced by its siren song. Few, however, went as far as Noel Field in betraying their own country.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index.
"This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American, spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then a pawn in Stalin's 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: ten million Americans unemployed, rampant racism, retreat from the world just as fascism was gaining ground, and Washington--pre FDR--parched of fresh ideas. Communism promised the righting of social and political wrongs and many in Field's generation were seduced by its siren song. Few, however, went as far as Noel Field in betraying their own country.
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