The Flight of the Falcon

Robert Lindsey

ISBN 10: 067145160X / ISBN 13: 9780671451608

Published by Pocket, 1985

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Synopsis:

After his escape from a maximum-security prison--rumored to have been masterminded by the KGB or the CIA--convicted Soviet spy Christopher John Boyce, "The Falcon," becomes the most wanted man in America

From the Back Cover: Christopher John Boyce was a son of affluence and privilege whose disaffection with America led him to sell to the Soviets sophisticated and highly secret spy-satellite information. Eventually uncovered and arrested, Boyce was convicted of espionage in Los Angeles, California, on June 20, 1977, and sentenced to forty years in a maximum-security federal penitentiary. Soon after his imprisonment, Boyce - the man prosecutors said had done more harm to the security of the United States than any Soviet agents since the Rosenbergs - escaped. Scores of FBI agents and U.S. Marshals sifted through hundreds of false leads in their search for Boyce. They traveled countless miles back and forth across America, to South Africa, through the isolated jungles of Central America. They were called on the carpet by Congressional committees for the often-publicized and embarrassing lack of results. The Flight of the Falcon is a thrilling chase and suspense story, and a finely wrought character of the metamorphosis of an idealistic young man into a coarse and criminal fugitive.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Flight of the Falcon
Publisher: Pocket
Publication Date: 1985
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good