The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War’s Last Honest Man

The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man
The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man
The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man

This title has a release date of August 23, 2022. See below for more information.

Written by: Benjamin Cunningham

Publisher: PublicAffairs

The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man Release Date

The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man releases August 23, 2022

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The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man released on August 23, 2022.

The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man Synopsis

The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow.

In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB were both watching Karel Koecher closely—and they were both convinced he was working for the enemy.    They were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA, Koecher proceeded to operate as a double agent at the height of the Cold War.

Shunning a low profile, the Koechers embraced Manhattan’s high life — with cocaine, swinging and parties emblematic of the times and their penchant for risk. Hana, who was no more than a shy teenager when she arrived, grew into a sophisticated international diamond dealer that relayed messages to Karel’s handlers. Riding a wave of euphoria, the Koechers felt unstoppable. But it was too good to last.

Using newly declassified documents, interrogation tapes and extraordinary first-hand accounts from the Koechers themselves, Cunningham reconstructs their double lives and the fading Cold War, where a strange moral fog made it hard to know what truth was being fought for, and to what end.

Genre: History, Nonfiction

Benjamin Cunningham
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