NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #35 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
Tonight, after last night's classic thrillers, I wanted to offer my favorite classic espionage books—dramatic tales of spy v. spy and one *BONKERS* story about Ross Perot:
1) He's largely forgotten to all-but counterintelligence historians now, but John Walker's spy ring was one of the most damaging ever, a tale recounted admirably by Pete Earley in his hard-to-find FAMILY OF SPIES: powells.com/book/-97805532…
2) THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN, the story of friendship and a 1970s Russian spy, is one of the great classics of espionage, powells.com/book/-97815857…
3) While we mostly only remember Ross Perot for his wacky on-again off-again presidential run in '92, the tale of how he broke two of his employees out of an Iranian prison in the 1970s is crazy, told in ON WINGS OF EAGLES. Seriously, you won't believe it: strandbooks.com/history-1/on-w…
4) Elaine Shannon and Ann Blackman's THE SPY NEXT DOOR is arguably the definitive account of the worst FBI traitor in history, Robert Hanssen: strandbooks.com/espionage/spy-…
5) The movie was good, but the book CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR is even better, an amazing, richly reported tale of how a rogue CIA officer and a congressman changed the course of the Soviet war in Afghanistan: bookshop.org/books/charlie-…
That's tonight's #GMGReads. What are your favorite spy books, fiction or nonfiction?! Where are you shopping online from indie bookstores? Share!! #avidreadersunite
