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Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed

byJim Popkin

Jim Popkin investigates Ana Montes, the Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who secretly spied for Cuba for nearly seventeen years. Trusted with sensitive assessments, Montes passed extraordinary intelligence while avoiding the usual financial motives and outward signs of espionage. The book reconstructs her recruitment, tradecraft, ideological commitment, arrest, and the damage she caused. It also follows her sister Lucy, an FBI employee working against Cuban spies, who was betrayed without knowing it. Popkin turns the case into both national-security thriller and intimate story of secrecy dividing a family.

Publisher

Harlequin Enterprises ULC

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9781335449887