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  • The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia
  • Written by: Bryan Denson
  • Narrated by: Jason Culp
  • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Written by: Bryan Denson
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Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons - father and son coconspirators who deceived their country by selling national secrets to Russia.

Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night,he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But Nicholson led a double life. For more than two years, he had met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents. In 1997 Nicholson became the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage. But his duplicity didn't stop there.

While behind the bars of a federal prison, the former mole systematically groomed the one person he trusted most to serve as his stand-in: his youngest son, Nathan. When asked to smuggle messages out of prison to Russian contacts, Nathan saw an opportunity to be heroic and to make his father proud.

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©2015 Bryan Denson. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
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"A haunting book as fast paced and as exciting as the best spy novel...and it’s all true." (Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the Snowman)

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A GREAT book

One of the most interesting books I have ever read. Real life spy craft books always interest me, and this one was very well written. Fascinating to see the brainwashing of a trusting son. The audiobook come with a PDF of photos, also good.

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