{"product_id":"the-liar-how-a-cia-double-agent-became-the-last-honest-man-of-the-cold-war-9781541700796","title":"The Liar: How a CIA Double Agent Became the Last Honest Man of the Cold War","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Benjamin Cunningham\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Espionage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003e In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely--they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And 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\u003e 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 who 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\u003e Using newly declassified documents, interrogation tapes, and extraordinary firsthand 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. ","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45030560465047,"sku":"9781541700796","price":2317.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781541700796.webp?v=1769205870","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-liar-how-a-cia-double-agent-became-the-last-honest-man-of-the-cold-war-9781541700796","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}