Cloaks, daggars, and skeletons in the closet! Read the secrets of real secret agents.
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Nash has been well known to reference librarians at least since the first edition of Bloodletters and Badmen (M. Evans, 1973), providing biographies on more than 400 American gangsters, murderers, robbers, and the like from the early seventeenth century to the present. In this new title, Nash has compiled, in the same format and style as Bloodletters, a volume on spies. Coverage ranges from biblical times (Caleb, Delilah, Joshua) to Benedict Arnold and Nathan Hale of the American Revolutionary era, from Lincoln's Allen Pinkerton to the Confederate agents Rose Greenhow and Belle Boyd, from World War II's Quisling and Richard Sorge to postwar spies Gary Powers and Aldridge Ames. In addition, considerable attention is given to intelligence/espionage agencies around the world, such as the CIA, FBI, Gestapo, and KGB. There are also entries for officials of these agencies. Other individuals include Alfred Dreyfus ("accused of spying") and Joseph McCarthy ("spyhunter"). Entries range in length from a few paragraphs to several pages for major figures, such as William Donovan. Cross-references lead the reader to related entries. The volume concludes with a glossary (including acronyms), a filmography, and a very extensive bibliography of books, periodical articles, government documents, and newspapers.
Spies, like Bloodletters, takes a popular approach to its subject. It provides more information on the individuals it covers than Spies and Provacateurs [RBB F 15 93] and complements SpyBook: The Encyclopedia of Espionage [RBB Ap 15 97], which has some 2,000 entries on all aspects of espionage. Nash's latest will be useful in both reference and circulating collections of high-school, public, and academic libraries.
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