Lost Spy

Filled with dramatic revelations, The Lost Spy may be the most important American spy story to come along in a generation. For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI--a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House.The Lost Spyat last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. Based on six years of international sleuthing,The Lost Spytraces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail--a brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria--and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory. As harrowing asDarkness at Noonand as tragic asDr. Zhivago, The Lost Spyis one of the great nonfiction detective stories of our time. 16 pages of illustrations.Meier, Andrew is the author of 'Lost Spy' with ISBN 9780393060973 and ISBN 0393060977.