King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (652 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N3BWCN4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 134 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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But King of Spies is not just the story of one American spy: with napalmed villages and severed heads, high-level lies and long-running cover-ups, it reminds us that the darkest sins of the Vietnam War—and many other conflicts that followed—were first committed in Korea.. Though he lacked the pedigree of most U.S. After just three months' training, he was sent to Korea, then a backwater beneath the radar of MacArthur's Pacific Command. Nichols’s clandestine reign lasted f
He was a national correspondent for The New York Times and has contributed to The Economist, PBS Frontline, Time, and Foreign Policy. He is the author of The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot; Escape From Camp 14, an international bestseller that has been published in 28 languages; A River Lost; and Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent, which won a Pen American Center citation
officials to predict the outbreak of the Korean War and whose espionage activities had a profound impact on the course of the war. You’ve probably never heard of Donald Nichols, but you’ll never forget him after reading King of Spies.” —Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea “A thrilling real-life spy story told by a terrific writer.” —Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA “Blaine Harden has done what no one else thought to do in seven decades: He’s brought us the full, sec