America at Night, Larry J. Kolb
America at Night, Larry J. Kolb
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America at Night
The True Story of Two Rogue CIA Operatives, Homeland Security Failures, Dirty Money, and a Plot to Steal the 2004 US Presidential Election—by the Former Intelligence Agent Who Foiled the Plan

Author: Larry J. Kolb

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/28/2019


Synopsis

A former CIA spy and author of Overworld recounts the stories of master criminals Robert Sensi and Richard Hirschfeld, describing their ties to the Republican Party and al-Qaeda, their numerous multi-million-dollar investment scams, and the partnership by which they smuggled billionaire Russian mafiosos into the United States.

About Larry J. Kolb

America at Night reads like a thriller, but the story is true and extensively documented. Larry J. Kolb shows us how one well-informed individual did what all of our security agencies could not: trail two brilliant covert political operatives through a labyrinth of disguised identities and dark crimes to expose corruption at the highest levels.

About Stephen Bowlby

Stephen Bowlby is an experienced audiobook narrator. He earned his BA in speech & theater at Westminster College in Pennsylvania, a short trip from his native North Jersey. His career quickly moved from commercial radio into television and film production as a writer, an editor, and a director with voice work ever present.


Reviews

Goodreads review by George

There is not much in this book besides what is given away on the cover. It only started to become interesting on page 92, when he said, after the events of 9-11 President Bush "fell under the spell of a cabal of neocon warmongers who'd never actually been to war themselves." Kolb suggests the disast......more

Goodreads review by Will

AMERICA AT NIGHT begins with an intriguing premise. Ex-CIA operative stumbles upon a plot by two rogue CIA elements to subvert the 2004 presidential election by manufacturing a connection between high ranking members of Kerry's election campaign and Al-Qaeda. And there is plenty here to satisfy anyo......more

I read Larry's earlier book, a memoir entitled "Overworld", and was completely engrossed. Its subject matter - espionage, spying, CIA, covert operations - is of interest to me, not only in my choice of reading material, but writing material as well. I have a contemporary spy novel (the first in a th......more

Goodreads review by Dave

Larry Kolb was a CIA operative investigating the ways of rogue agents to discredit John Kerry in the pres election of 2004. It is educational in that the ways of things behind the scenes are much different than we think. Or not. Conspiracy theory stuff.......more


Quotes

“The kind of story about which fiction writers can only dream.”

New York Times

“Exciting from beginning to end.”

Kirkus Reviews

“Stories of powerful men behaving badly have irresistible appeal, and Kolb relates them in prose far more lively than the average bureaucrat’s.”

Publishers Weekly