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The Falcon and the Snowman (Paperback)
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The Falcon and the Snowman (Paperback)
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Loot Price R557
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This fascinating account of how two young Americans turned traitor
during the Cold War is an "absolutely smashing real-life spy story"
(The New York Times Book Review). At the height of the Cold War,
some of the nation's most precious secrets passed through a CIA
contractor in Southern California. Only a handful of employees were
cleared to handle the intelligence that came through the Black
Vault. One of them was Christopher John Boyce, a hard-partying
genius with a sky-high IQ, a passion for falconry, and little love
for his country. Security at the Vault was so lax, Boyce couldn't
help but be tempted. And when he gave in, the fate of the free
world would hang in the balance. With the help of his best friend,
Andrew Daulton Lee, a drug dealer with connections south of the
border, Boyce began stealing classified documents and selling them
to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. It was an audacious act of
treason, committed by two spoiled young men who were nearly always
drunk, stoned, or both--and were about to find themselves caught in
the middle of a fight between the CIA and the KGB. This Edgar
Award-winning book was the inspiration for the critically acclaimed
film starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn--a true story as
thrilling as any dreamed up by Ian Fleming or John le Carre. Before
Edward Snowden, there were Boyce and Lee, two of the most unlikely
spies in the history of the Cold War.
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