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Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. signed by Neil Lewis, one of the authors, on front end paper. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Random House, New York. 1995. Hardcover. Stated First Edition / First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); small red smudge on front panel. Black paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine and embossed title on the front board. 308 pp 8vo. Aldrich Ames, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed. Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning was in order at Langley. A clean very presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stated First Edition. 308 pp, acknowledgments, list sources, index, about the authors (then Washington correspondents for The New York Times); 8vo, black boards/cloth, near fine; priced dust jacket near fine.

Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket First Edition hardbound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 308 p. Fine in fine jacket in mylar cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition [stated]. viii, 308, [4] pages. Note on sources. List of sources. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Signed on half-title by Davis Johnston and Neil Lewis. Tim Weiner (born June 20, 1956) is an American reporter and author. He is the author of four books and co-author of a fifth, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. He is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Weiner worked for the Times from 1993 to 2009 as a foreign correspondent in Mexico, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan and as a national security correspondent in Washington, DC. Weiner won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as an investigative reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his articles on the black budget spending at the Pentagon and the CIA. David Johnston and Neil Lewis also were journalists working at The New York Times. Derived from a Kirkus review: An eye-widening look inside one of America's most notorious spy cases. Veteran New York Times reporters Weiner, Johnston, and Lewis portray the CIA as populated by mediocre career bureaucrats more concerned with self-preservation than with doing the organization's legally mandated job. It comes as no surprise that Aldrich Ames, a severely alcoholic, incompetent spook, should have risen to head the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division. Ames sold critical government secrets to the Soviet Union. He turned to a quick source of cash--the KGB--to fund his expensive tastes in clothing, housing, food, drink, and companions during his postings in places like Mexico City and Rome. The information he supplied the Soviets led directly to the destruction of a network of double agents. His treason earned Ames nearly $3 million before his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994. He was brazenly careless about his new wealth, but the CIA took years to wonder how Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe, questions that could have been answered ``by the kind of credit check millions of Americans undergo each year.''.

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Condition: fine, very good. First Edition. 308, note on sources, list of sources, index, slight wear to top and bottom DJ edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Eine packende Erzählung über Aldrich Ames, einen CIA-Agenten, der während des Kalten Krieges für Russland spionierte. Das Buch beleuchtet die Handlungen von Ames und deren verheerende Auswirkungen auf die nationale Sicherheit der USA. Zustand: Einband mit geringfügigen Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt SEHR GUTER Zustand! Stichworte: Genres: Biography, True Crime, Espionage; Schlagworte: Aldrich Ames, CIA, Espionage, Cold War, Russian spies, Intelligence, Washington, Betrayal, American spy, National security. 308 Seiten Englisch 717g.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. UK 1996 softcover edition in good condition. Minor wear, no inscriptions, a little creasing to spine and front cover.

Condition: Near fine condition. 1st UK. First Thus. Paperback.

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Gut. 8°, 309 Seiten mit einnigen Bildtafeln, farbig illustr. OKart. - guter Zustand - 1995. Von Neil Lewis selbst im Vorsatz handschriftlich signiert! MA9618 ISBN: 1860660460 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 580.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: As New. First Edition. First American Edition. Thirty one years in the CIA; the worst betrayal in CIA history and the Soviets' best mole, 1985-94: Ames perjured the entire CIA Russian network, with 10 agents shot and many imprisoned; by three New York Times correspondents. As new, in slightly soiled dust jacket. 8vo (308 pages, 20 illustrations, 6 facsimiles, sources, index.) Esp.