Robert Lindsey
Paperback | Pages: 360 pages Rating: 4.12 | 1924 Users | 62 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage |
| ISBN: | 1585745022 (ISBN13: 9781585745029) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime (1980) |
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It’s not hard to see the ideals of our nation’s founders aren’t working as originally envisioned. And yet, does that entitle anyone to sell our country’s security secrets to a foreign power, especially one who is an avowed enemy?One of the most damaging espionage conspiracies against the United States in the postwar era was perpetrated by two young men who had begun life with what seemed to be the best America had to bestow on her children. Christopher John Boyce was elected student body president and delivered the graduation address for his eighth grade class. Andrew Daulton Lee had been adopted by a compassionate and wealthy couple unable to have more children. Both boys grew up in stable, upper middle class homes, with devoted parents, siblings, and every opportunity. They were altar boys when they were young and later shared a love of falconing. It was southern California in the late 50s, early 60s. So how could they end up as traitors? As spies, selling their own country out to the Soviet Union for money during the most frigid years of the Cold War? What went so wrong?
Robert Lindsey’s The Falcon and the Snowman explores this near-suicidal trek Boyce and Lee embarked on without any real plan and very different motives. A riveting read!
Present Of Books The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship & Espionage
| Title | : | The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship & Espionage |
| Author | : | Robert Lindsey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 360 pages |
| Published | : | June 2nd 2002 by The Lyons Press (first published 1979) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. Crime. True Crime. Spy Thriller. Espionage. Biography. Mystery |
Rating Of Books The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship & Espionage
Ratings: 4.12 From 1924 Users | 62 ReviewsCritique Of Books The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship & Espionage
Its not hard to see the ideals of our nations founders arent working as originally envisioned. And yet, does that entitle anyone to sell our countrys security secrets to a foreign power, especially one who is an avowed enemy? One of the most damaging espionage conspiracies against the United States in the postwar era was perpetrated by two young men who had begun life with what seemed to be the best America had to bestow on her children. Christopher John Boyce was elected student body presidentWhen Christopher Boyce was 21 years old, his father helped him get a job at TRW, a company in the defense industry. He began working as a general clerk with classified material but eventually he earned the clearance to work in the Black Vault with special projects in which he had access to Top Secret information. He was only one of six people approved for this most exclusive of clearances. While working in the Black Vault, he gained insight into the CIA and some of its covert operations. He
Reads like a Cold War novel and, because its a true story, is a page turner that was difficult to put down. Although published 39 years ago, there is still an immediacy that reminds us of the other subsequent spy scandals such as the CIA's Aldrich Ames and the FBI's Robert Hanssen. The 1984 film with Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn was remarkably faithful to the book. What's not included in the book, at least in the edition I read, is the remarkable epilogue for Christopher Boyce and Daulton Lee.
Christopher John Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee grew up in wealthy, upper middle-class homes in Southern California in the 1950s and 60s. Friends from an early age, theyd been altar boys together and shared an interest in falconry. Both started to dabble in drugs in high school and both were listless, unsure of what they would do after school, trying and dropping out of college. While Lee gravitated from selling drugs in school to forming his own drugs network, making runs to Mexico and regularly
Fascinating In a fact vs fiction competition in writing, fact wins hands down. This is a fantastic book. Get it. Read it.
Much Better Than the MovieAn understandably limited tale of greater truths that delves too far into the birds Boyce pined after! Read before you watch the movie!
Its not hard to see the ideals of our nations founders arent working as originally envisioned. And yet, does that entitle anyone to sell our countrys security secrets to a foreign power, especially one who is an avowed enemy? One of the most damaging espionage conspiracies against the United States in the postwar era was perpetrated by two young men who had begun life with what seemed to be the best America had to bestow on her children. Christopher John Boyce was elected student body president
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