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The Soul of Viktor Tronko

The Soul of Viktor Tronko( )
Author: Quammen, David
Introduction by: Pearl, Nancy
Series title:Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4778-2611-9
Publication Date:Sep 2014
Publisher:Amazon Publishing
Imprint:Amazon Encore
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $22.99
Book Description:

When Soviet agent Viktor Tronko defected to the US in 1964, he made two intriguing claims: he insisted that Russia had not placed a mole inside the CIA, and that Lee Harvey Oswald had not been recruited to assassinate the president. Convinced that Tronko was working as a disinformation agent, the CIA furiously did everything they could to break him. But Tronko had one more surprise for them: he refused to break.

Almost two decades later, former CIA officer Mel...
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Book Details
Pages:480
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):2.54 x 20.955 x 13.97 cm
Book Weight:0.545 Kilograms
Author Biography
Quammen, David (Author)
Writer David Quammen grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and was later educated at both Yale and Oxford Universities.

Quammen began his career by writing for The Christian Science Monitor, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, and Audubon, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Harpers Magazines. He wrote the novels The Soul of Viktor Tronko and The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, which won the 1997 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. He also received two National Magazine Awards for his column "Natural Acts" in Outside magazine.

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