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An American In Stalin's Secret Service
W. W. Norton
August 2008
On Sale: August 11, 2008
Featuring: Isaiah Oggins
304 pages
ISBN: 0393060977
EAN: 9780393060973
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Filled with dramatic revelations, The Lost Spy may be the most important American spy story to come along in a generation. For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBIβa footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. The Lost Spy at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. Based on six years of international sleuthing, The Lost Spy traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detailβa brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuriaβand his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory. As harrowing as Darkness at Noon and as tragic as Dr. Zhivago, The Lost Spy is one of the great nonfiction detective stories of our time.
 Media BuzzMorning Edition - January 1, 2009
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