The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man
Hardcover
From the publisher's website:
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.
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.
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.
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