{"product_id":"the-liar-how-a-double-agent-in-the-cia-became-the-cold-wars-last-honest-man-9781541700796","title":"The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Cold War meets \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShunning 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541700796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Benjamin Cunningham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42253614514357,"sku":"9781541700796","price":24.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_92e7fd31-0294-4e7a-8f2a-df5b7c706d3d.jpg?v=1656387992","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-liar-how-a-double-agent-in-the-cia-became-the-cold-wars-last-honest-man-9781541700796","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}