While this is a well-written biography of Michael Whitney Straight, (9/1/16–1/4/04) its central thesis that he was a K.G.B. spy until the collapse of the USSR is unconvincing. The evidence seems perfectly clear through WWII and clear enough through the Henry Wallace campaign, but by the fifties ...
after dropping Danielle off in the city, but I couldn’t grab more than a cup of coffee. A lot was happening. My secretary/assistant/confidante, Rachel Carlotti, a computer-efficient, ex-school headmistress of forty-five, had a daunting list of messages for me. It was important to speak with Farra...
But it wasn’t the French police as planned. “The investigation has been transferred to a special unit of French intelligence known as NAP 1,” Sir Alfred said with a note of concern. “What’s that?” “It was set up in the mid-19...
He could feel the chill in the ante room of the morgue, and he fought hard to control himself. The trolley was pushed towards him and the three men from the US Embassy by the coroner and an assistant. The sheet was pulled down. Cardinal grimaced. The face had been blasted away. The more he looked...
News of the just-turned 21-year-old’s death took three weeks to reach communist party headquarters in England via the communist network. His close friend Straight had the difficult task of informing relatives and other companions. The Cambridge Review said his death was “a bitter loss to English ...