The Spy Who Loved Us: The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game

Bass, Thomas A.

ISBN 10: 1586484095 / ISBN 13: 9781586484095

Published by PublicAffairs, 2009

About this Item

First printing. SIGNED and dated by Thomas Bass on the title page. The volume is lightly wrinkled at the spine ends and the bottom rear corner is gently bumped. The unclipped dust jacket (price is on the rear panel) has some very light edge wrinkling. The jacket is sleeved in mylar. Seller Inventory # 15030211

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Spy Who Loved Us: The Vietnam War and ...

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Pham Xuan An was a brilliant journalist and an even better spy. A friend to all the legendary reporters who covered the Vietnam War, he was an invaluable source of news and a font of wisdom on all things Vietnamese. At the same time, he was a masterful double agent. An inspired shape-shifter who kept his cover in place until the day he died, Pham Xuan An ranks as one of the preeminent spies of the twentieth century. When Thomas A. Bass set out to write the story of Ans remarkable career for The New Yorker, fresh revelations arrived daily during their freewheeling conversations, which began in 1992. But a good spy is always at work, and it was not until Ans death in 2006 that Bass was able to lift the veil from his carefully guarded story to offer up this fascinating portrait of a hidden life. A masterful history that reads like a John le Carr thriller, The Spy Who Loved Us offers a vivid portrait of journalists and spies at war.

Review:

John Le Carré
“I was deeply impressed by this book. It is relevant, instructive, funny. The shock of the double never goes away. Neither does the gullibility of the arrogant intruder.”