The spy's son : the true story of the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage and the son he trained to spy for Russia

Summary: By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night, he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But for more than two years, Jim Nicholson met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents. In 1997 Nicholson became the highest ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage. But while behind the bars of a federal prison, he groomed the one person he trusted most to serve as his stand-in: his youngest son, Nathan.

Record details

ISBN: 9780802123589 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
365 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Prologue: Suspected spies in chains -- Hola Nancy -- First CIA tour, Manila Station -- "Batman" switches teams -- A new counterspy collaboration -- We have another Aldrich Ames -- Spy vs. spy under Landley's roof -- FBI takedown at Dulles -- Forsaken all allegiance to his homeland -- A new cellblock celebrity -- A fall into blackness -- The Russian Consulate, San Francisco -- A spy named "George" -- Faith, prosperity, and the door -- CIA detects codes, espionage, again -- Keep looking through your new eyes -- FBI offers a mulligan -- Inmate 738520 -- Eighteen: A spy swap and reparations -- Epilogue: The last asset.