from Eyejaybee

I am always a bit wary of publishers' blurbs that assert that a new non-fiction book tells a story more fascinating than fiction, but one of the encomia splattered over this book describes is as 'non-fiction as rich and resonant as a spy novel by John le Carre or Graham Greene', and that claim se...

from gmmartz

The Billion Dollar Spy is a wonderful non-fiction account of one of the greatest espionage assets ever developed by the US. It's well-written, albeit dryly in most cases, but moves along at a good pace. Unlike most fiction, a happy ending isn't in the cards, but the real life examples provided in...

from marilynr

Excellent , well written non-fiction

from Stbalbach

David E. Hoffman wrote a Pulitzer Prize winner a few years ago, The Dead Hand, which I thought was fantastic, and so was eager to read his latest. Unlike the former sweeping survey of Russian weapons of mass destruction during the Cold War, this is a very narrow and deep story about a single spy....

from tmph

Serviceable, readable, but nothing to get too excited about regards the writing - but the story is fascinating and moving in a distant kind of way. Some of the action is very in-depth, but so, so much of the story is just the thinnest surface.