{"product_id":"the-liar-benjamin-cunningham-9781541700796","title":"The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Cold War meets \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely--they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA, Koecher proceeded to operate as a double agent at the height of the Cold War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Shunning a low profile, the Koechers embraced Manhattan's high life--with cocaine, swinging, and parties emblematic of the times and their penchant for risk. Hana, who was no more than a shy teenager when she arrived, grew into a sophisticated international diamond dealer who relayed messages to Karel's handlers. Riding a wave of euphoria, the Koechers felt unstoppable. But it was too good to last. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using newly declassified documents, interrogation tapes, and extraordinary firsthand accounts from the Koechers themselves, Cunningham reconstructs their double lives and the fading Cold War, where a strange moral fog made it hard to know what truth was being fought for, and to what end. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Cunningham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1541700791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541700796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2022 pg. 112","brand":"Benjamin Cunningham","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981949829375,"sku":"9781541700796","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc9fd9d1-67e5-4f4e-8250-42fb0fa7a71b.jpg?v=1683258430","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-liar-benjamin-cunningham-9781541700796","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}