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

Bass, Thomas A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1586484095 ISBN 13: 9781586484095

Publisher: Public Affairs, 2009

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.

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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.”

About the Author:

Thomas A. Bass is the author of The Eudaemonic Pie, Vietnamerica, The Predictors, and other books. Cited by the Overseas Press Club for his foreign reporting, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Wired, Smithsonian, The New York Times, and other publications. He is Professor of English and Journalism at the State University of New York in Albany.

About this edition

• Publisher: Public Affairs
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1586484095
• ISBN 13: 9781586484095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 297