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The Good Spy; The Life and Death of Robert Ames
by Bird, Kai (Biography of Robert Ames.)
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0307889750
- ISBN 13
- 9780307889751
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers 978-0-307-88975-1 [978-0-307-88975-1] 2014, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 430pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Map endpapers, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. The spine is lightly edgeworn at the top and bottom. "The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West". Biography of Robert Ames. Locale: Beirut. (Military, Biography, CIA, History--Middle East, International Affairs, Military, Spies).
Synopsis
KAI BIRD is the coauthor or author of four previous books: American Prometheus, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, The Chairman , and The Color of Truth. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Writing Fellowship.
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153902
- Title
- The Good Spy; The Life and Death of Robert Ames
- Author
- Bird, Kai (Biography of Robert Ames.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0307889750
- ISBN 13
- 9780307889751
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers 978-0-307-88975-1
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2014-05-20
- Keywords
- Military, Biography, CIA, History--Middle East, International Affairs, Military, Spies
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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