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PeriodicalLarge Print Book
Author Bird, Kai.

Title The good spy : the life and death of Robert Ames / Kai Bird.

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Large Print Materials  LP 327.12 BIR    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  LP B AMES    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 727 pages, [28] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [601]-724)
Summary The 1983 attack on the American Embassy in Beirut killed 63 people, including America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East -- CIA operative Robert Ames. Kai Bird, who as a child lived in the Beirut Embassy and knew Ames as a neighbor, draws on years of research and hours of interviews to produce a masterpiece-level narrative of the making of a CIA officer and a uniquely insightful history of the Middle East conflict.
Subject Ames, Robert, 1934-1983.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
Large type books.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
ISBN 9781410469182 (hardback)
1410469182 (hardcover)
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