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008    180108t20182018nyuaf    b    001 0ceng   
010      2017056747 
019    1023487905 
020    9781538761311|q(hardcover) 
020    1538761319|q(hardcover) 
020    |z9781538761328|q(electronic book) 
035    (OCoLC)1019841610|z(OCoLC)1023487905 
037    |bGrand Central Pub, C/O Little Brown & Co Order Dept 53 
       State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 02109|nSAN 200-2205 
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050 00 UB271.U5|bR87 2018 
082 00 327.1247073092/2|223 
100 1  Russo, Gus,|eauthor. 
245 10 Best of enemies :|bthe last great spy story of the Cold 
       War /|cGus Russo and Eric Dezenhall. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bTwelve,|c2018. 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    vi, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-321) and 
       index. 
505 0  Apprentice spies -- All roads lead to Washington -- 
       Contact -- Musketeers -- The IOC -- The quisling -- Softly,
       softly, catchee monkey -- Havana takedown -- Sasha -- An 
       old enemy -- A second reunion -- Going public -- A heavy 
       box of caviar -- Calm before the storm -- You don't know 
       me -- The Gulag redux -- Rest: the red button -- End 
       games. 
520    "The story of two Cold War spies - CIA agent Jack Platt 
       and KGB agent Genya Vasilenko - and their improbable 
       friendship at a time when they should have been anything 
       but. In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent 
       Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC 
       intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's 
       counterintelligence office and Gennady out of the Soviet 
       Embassy. Both men, already notorious iconoclasts within 
       their respective agencies, were assigned to seduce the 
       other into betraying his country in the urgent final days 
       of the Cold War, but instead the men ended up becoming the
       best of friends-blood brothers. Theirs is a friendship 
       that never should have happened, and their story is chock 
       full of treachery, darkly comic misunderstandings, 
       bureaucratic inanity, the Russian Mafia, and landmark 
       intelligence breakthroughs of the past half century. In 
       BEST OF ENEMIES, two espionage cowboys reveal how they 
       became key behind-the-scenes players in solving some of 
       the most celebrated spy stories of the twentieth century, 
       including the crucial discovery of the Soviet mole Robert 
       Hanssen, the 2010 Spy Swap which freed Gennady from Soviet
       imprisonment, and how Robert De Niro played a real-life 
       role in helping Gennady stay alive during his 
       incarceration in Russia after being falsely accused of 
       spying for the Americans. Through their eyes, we see the 
       distinctions between the Russian and American methods of 
       conducting espionage and the painful birth of the new 
       Russia, whose leader, Vladimir Putin, dreams he can roll 
       back to the ideals of the old USSR."--Provided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Platt, Jack,|d1936-2017. 
600 10 Vasilenko, Gennady,|d1941- 
610 10 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency|xOfficials and
       employees|vBiography. 
610 10 Soviet Union.|bKomitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti
       |xOfficials and employees|vBiography. 
650  0 Spies|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Spies|zSoviet Union|vBiography. 
650  0 Spies|zRussia (Federation)|vBiography. 
650  0 Espionage|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Espionage|zSoviet Union|xHistory. 
650  0 Male friendship. 
650  7 Employees.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00909111 
650  7 Espionage.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00915379 
650  7 Male friendship.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01006633 
650  7 Spies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01129772 
651  7 Russia (Federation)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01262050 
651  7 Soviet Union.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01210281 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
700 1  Dezenhall, Eric,|eauthor. 
914    MID.b25931362 
994    C0|bGPI 

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