The Good Spy
The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 727 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
The 1983 attack on the American Embassy in Beirut killed 63 people, including America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East -- CIA operative Robert Ames. Kai Bird, who as a child lived in the Beirut Embassy and knew Ames as a neighbor, draws on years of research and hours of interviews to produce a masterpiece-level narrative of the making of a CIA officer and a uniquely insightful history of the Middle East conflict.
Series: Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.
Subjects:
Ames, Robert, 1934-1983.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
Large type books.
Ames, Robert, 1934-1983.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9781410469182 (large print : hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-726).