"Kati Marton's True Believer is a true story of intrigue,
treachery, murder, torture, fascism, and an unshakable faith in the
ideals of Communism....A fresh take on espionage activities from a
critical period of history" (Washington Independent Review of
Books). 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 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.
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.
With a reporter's eye for detail, and a historian's grasp of the
cataclysmic events of the twentieth century, Kati Marton, in a
"relevant...fascinating...vividly reconstructed" (The New York
Times Book Review) account, captures Field's 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,
"Wild Bill" Donovan-to the most sinister of all: Josef Stalin.
"Relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it can take
one to" (Publishers Weekly), True Believer is "riveting reading"
(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 Carre.
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