Spy - David Wise

Spy tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent Robert
Hanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for twenty-two years in what has been
called the "worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history"-and how he was finally caught
in an incredible gambit by U.S. intelligence.

David Wise, the nation's leading espionage
writer, has called on his unique knowledge and unrivaled intelligence sources to
write the definitive, inside story of how Robert Hanssen betrayed his country, and
why.

Spy at last reveals the mind and motives of a man who was a walking paradox:
FBI counterspy, KGB mole, devout Catholic, obsessed pornographer who secretly televised
himself and his wife having sex so that his best friend could watch, defender of
family values, fantasy James Bond who took a stripper to Hong Kong and carried a
machine gun in his car trunk.

Brimming with startling new details sure to make headlines,
Spy discloses:

the previously untold story of how the FBI got the actual file on
Robert Hanssen out of KGB headquarters in Moscow for $7 million in an unprecedented
operation that ended in Hanssen's arrest.

how for three years, the FBI pursued
a CIA officer, code name gray deceiver, in the mistaken belief that he was the mole
they were seeking inside U.S. intelligence. The innocent officer was accused as a
spy and suspended by the CIA for nearly two years.

why Hanssen spied, based on
exclusive interviews with Dr. David L. Charney, the psychiatrist who met with Hanssen
in his jail cell more than thirty times. Hanssen, in an extraordinary arrangement,
authorized Charney to talk to the author.

the full story of Robert Hanssen's bizarre
sex life, including the hidden video camera he set up in his bedroom and how he plotted
to drug his wife, Bonnie, so that his best friend could father her child.

how
Hanssen and the CIA's Aldrich Ames betrayed three Russians secretly spying for the
FBI-including tophat, a Soviet general-who were then executed by Moscow.

that
after Hanssen was already working for the KGB, he directed a study of moles in the
FBI when-as he alone knew-he was the mole.

Robert Hanssen betrayed the FBI. He betrayed
his country. He betrayed his wife. He betrayed his children. He betrayed his best
friend, offering him up to the KGB. He betrayed his God. Most of all, he betrayed
himself. Only David Wise could tell the astonishing, full story, and he does so,
in masterly style, in Spy.