

The Soul of Viktor Tronko
Author: David Quammen
Narrator: David Quammen
Unabridged: 14 hr 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/16/2014
Author: David Quammen
Narrator: David Quammen
Unabridged: 14 hr 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/16/2014
David Quammen is the author of a dozen fiction and nonfiction books, including Blood Line and The Song of the Dodo. Spillover, his most recent book, was shortlisted for several major awards. A three-time National Magazine Award winner, he is a contributing writer for National Geographic and has written also for Harper’s, Outside, Esquire, The Atlantic, Powder, and Rolling Stone. He travels widely on assignment, usually to jungles, mountains, remote islands, and swamps.
This is a spy story based on two famous KGB defectors, and a controversial CIA Counterintelligence Director. The first of the defectors, Bogdan Fedorenko (Anatoly Golitsyn in real life), in 1961, provided a lot of intelligence, including the shocking information that a senior CIA official was a Sovi......more
At the time, few in any inside the Agency would have called him a “mole.” That term didn’t enter wide use until the publication in 1974 of John le Carré’s novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. But for a decade in the 1960s and 70s, the CIA’s counterintelligence chief, James Jesus Angleton, turned the Ag......more
I WON A FREE COPY OF THIS BOOK FROM A GOODREADS GIVAWAY!!! and I was very excited to start it... As I am with all the books I get...(some one put a lot of hard work and effort into it might as well give it a shot....) Anyways...... I liked the spy,suspense, who-dun-it type books. But this one was a l......more
The Cold War holds a special place in the annals of spy fiction. The shadowy conflict where spies were the front line, in many ways, stretched across nearly half a century. Not to mention where, in many ways, the genre came into its own in stories about dubious allegiances and 'moles' burrowed deep......more
This is a read for initiated spy story junkies (and I found it pretty amazing that such a book comes from an author who's not a specialist of the genre); if you are one, you are likely to enjoy The Soul of Viktor Tronko, despite - and maybe because of - its slow pace and cerebral plot. If you are a......more