Review
“In Spy For No Country, Lindorff takes the reader beyond the who, what, where, when, and how of a spy biography by placing a keen eye on the why of Ted Hall’s Soviet espionage in World War II America. When the motives of a spy are exposed within the context of the hopes and fears of an era, the truth can surface, as Lindorff so deftly reveals. His fast-paced, myth-smashing, and engaging narrative brims with surprises while delving into the timeless issues of nuclear threat and global peace.” – Ann Hagedorn, award-winning author of Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away among others
“Lindorff’s remarkable story of the life of teenaged American atomic spy Ted Hall offers a riveting journey through the world of espionage, intrigue, scientific discovery, politics, and moral reckoning with an extraordinary cast of characters. Read this and make your own judgments. Lindorff has made his.” – Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute, American University and co-author (with Oliver Stone) of The Untold History of the United States
“This groundbreaking story about an early little-known chapter in the history of the atom bomb, told in nuanced contexts with meticulous attention to detail, offers vital insights about the first nuclear era and the current one. Lindorff challenges us to reassess what we've assumed we know, and to dig for answers that could help save us all.” – Norman Solomon, author of War Made Invisible among many others
About the Author
Dave Lindorff is a veteran investigative journalist, having worked as a Business Week correspondent, Los Angeles County government bureau chief for the Los Angeles Daily News. and later a reporter/producer on Los Angeles PBS station KCET-TV’s Peabody Award-winning investigative news program 28-Tonight. Lindorff has won major journalism awards including, most recently, a 2019 “Izzy” award for “Outstanding Independent Media” from the Park Center for Independent Media.
He was a two-time Fulbright Professor of Journalism posted at Shanghai, PRC’s prestigious Fudan University, and Taiwan’s Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung. Lindorff is the author of the critically acclaimed books Marketplace Medicine: Rise of the For-Profit Hospital Chains, Killing Time: Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, This Can’t Be Happening!, and The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office. He writes regularly for the Nation and the London Review of Books, among others, and was an on-camera reporter on the Oscar-nominated documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.
