Set in the treacherous mountains of Afghanistan and the equally hazardous headquarters of the CIA Operations Directorate in Washington, The Black Tulip is a fast-paced thriller, based on real events, by the legendary spy who masterminded the plot to arm Afghan freedom fighters in their holy war against the Soviets. A longtime veteran of the CIA, Bearden knows the tricks of the trade, the price of honor, the bonds of blood, and the enduring lure of retribution.

The Black Tulip: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Bearden, Milton

United States

Random House]

A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them. Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they dodge surveillance and walk into violent ambushes in Moscow. This is the story of the generation of spies who came of age in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis and rose through the ranks to run the CIA and KGB in the last days of the Cold War. The clandestine operations they masterminded took them from the sewers of Moscow to the back streets of Baghdad, from Cairo and Havana to Prague and Berlin, but the action centers on Washington, starting in the infamous "Year of the Spy"--when, one by one, the CIA’s agents in Moscow began to be killed, up through to the very last man. Behind the scenes with the CIA's covert operations in Afghanistan, Milt Bearden led America to victory in the secret war against the Soviets, and for the first time he reveals here what he did and whom America backed, and why. Bearden was called back to Washington after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and was made chief of the Soviet/East Euro-pean Division—just in time to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe, and the implosion of the Soviet Union. Laced with startling revelations--about fail-safe top-secret back channels between the CIA and KGB, double and triple agents, covert operations in Berlin and Prague, and the fateful autumn of 1989--The Main Enemy is history at its action-packed best.

The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB

History

Risen, James

Americas

Book by Laqueur, Walter, Lewis, Bernard, Carter, Ashton, Deutch, John, Zelikow, Philip, Rose, Gideon, Rashid, Ahmed, Flynn, Stephen E., Stern, Jessica, Ajami, Fouad, Bearden, Milton, Perry, William J., Doran, Michael Scott, Betts, Richard K.

The New Terrorism: Threat And Response (Foreign Affairs Editors' Chioce Book Seies)

Politics & Social Sciences

LAQUEUR, Walter

Betts, Richard K.

Ajami, Fouad

Rashid, Ahmed

Perry, William J.

Stern, Jessica

Rose, Gideon

Deutch, John

Flynn, Stephen E.

Zelikow, Philip

Carter, Ashton

Lewis,Bernard

Doran, Michael Scott

Social Sciences

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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