A master sleeper spy, assimilated into American life for twenty years, has been made operative and given control of the vast financial assets of the old KGB - and has disappeared with the fortune. His reputation is deadly, and his manipulation of enormous wealth begins to alter the world's political and financial structure. Although the old KGB has been dismantled, new KGB bosses and old KGB hard-liners bent on reinstating the old guard's lethal techniques are determined to find the sleeper. And so is the world's greatest reporter, Irving Fein. Fein is a character only William Safire could create: driven, mean, funny, always the "skunk at the garden party." Relentlessly resourceful, Fein is always suspicious, always thinking; and his access to the top in politics, the CIA, the media, is the best. But Irving isn't charming, nor is he good on television; and he needs a big story. Viveca Farr is Fein's journalistic opposite - a TV anchorwoman who is popular on the air but lacks stature as a reporter. Working together, they decide to "walk back the cat" and break the story of the notorious sleeper spy - even as the sleeper is devising brilliant ways to elude them.
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William Safire uses the same sly wit and insider knowledge that make his New York Times journalism so lively in this jolly, mordant romp about a Soviet agent who has become a Bill Gates-like American billionaire using KGB money. When reporter Irving Fein gets a tip about this mole's plan to surface, it could either be the biggest story of his career or the reason to run the obituary that he's no doubt already written.
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"Safire proves himself a master dissembler," wrote PW of his third spy novel from the Pulitzer-winning word czar.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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William Safire began his writing career as a reporter, became a speechwriter in the Nixon White House, and re-crossed the street to write an Op-Ed column in the New York Times for the next three decades. He also wrote the weekly "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine. He was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary and the Medal of Freedom.
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Sleeper Spy is a winner...,
This review is from: Sleeper Spy (Mass Market Paperback)
After years of reading spy novels, I had kinda given up on the genre. My wife bought _Sleeper Spy_ for me (and, honestly, I only read it because I had run out of other reading material). I was very, very pleasantly surprised. Safire spins a thoroughly engaging tale of espionage, duplicity, violence and deception - and that's only the part dealing with the media! The spying game gets even more intense. One gets the sense that Safire is relating many instances of his real experiences reporting on the inner workings of the beltway. The genre rarely gets more realistic - or more satisfying. Well done, Bill!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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John LeCarre & Robert Ludlum - STEP ASIDE!,
This review is from: Sleeper Spy (Mass Market Paperback)
The BEST spy story I have read in 5 years. Safire does it all - intricate plotting, sparkling dialogue (no padding to just fill up pages) - characters that are interesting and that you care for (the good guys) and characters that you can hate with a passion (the bad guys). I started ( but never finished) FREEDOM in 1987 - now I am going to back to it and complete it. If you like TERRIFIC prose, you will LOVE this book. Safire has a way with words that is incomparable
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Spy novel with a satisfying ending,
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This review is from: Sleeper Spy (Mass Market Paperback)
One of the few spy novels which moves along at an even pace, includes the usual surprises but none of the fake romances, chases, and other usually contrived events designed to get the best movie deal. At last, a satisfying ending-one that seems to evolve from the story line and not just to end a book at 500 or 600 or whatever pages. The main character, however, is not a likeable person
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