The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold

Author(s): Havill, Adrian Publisher: St. Martin|s Press Format: Hardcover List Price:  Rs. 1,261 Category: Espionage ISBN-10: 0312287828 Language: English Pages: 262 Dimensions: 9.59" l x 6.48" w x 1.05" h

Overview:

Robert Philip Hanssen thought he was smarter than the system. For decades the quirky but respected counterintelligence expert' religious family man' and father of six sold top-secret information to agents of the Soviet Union and Russia. A self-taught computer expert' Hanssen often encrypted his stolen files on wafer-thin disks. The data - some six thousand pages of highly classified documents - revealed precious nuclear secrets' outlined American espionage initiatives' and named names of agents - spies who covertly worked for both sides. Robert Philip Hanssen thought he was smarter than the system. And until February 18' 2001' he was right. When the G-men captured their mark' they catapulted the once-innocuous bureaucrat onto the front pages of every newspaper in America. The most notorious spy since the Rosenbergs had finally become a victim of his own undoing. Now' drawing on more than one hundred interviews with Bob Hanssen's friends' colleagues' coworkers' and family members' as well as confidential sources' best-selling author Adrian Havill tells the entire story as only he can. The Spy Who Stayed Out in the cold tells not only how Hanssen did it' but why.