num_pages: 295
description: The never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA and the fight to bring him down from New York Times bestselling author and former CIA officer Robert BaerIn the aftermath of the Cold War American intelligence caught three high-profiles Russian spies: Aldrich Ames Edward Lee Howard and Robert Hanssen. However rumors have long swirled of another mole one perhaps more damaging than all the others combined. Perhaps the greatest traitor in American history perhaps a Russian ruse to tear the CIA apart or perhaps nothing more than a bogeyman he is often referred to as the Fourth Man. For the first time ever New York Times bestselling author and former CIA operative Robert Baer tells the full story. After the Ames arrest the CIA launched another investigation to make sure there wasn't another mole in their ranks. Led by three women pioneering counterintelligence veterans its existence was known only to a few. As they hunted through their own turning up loose threads smoking guns and a mercurial KGB source they came to a startling conclusion that would shake American intelligence to its core. In a cat-and-mouse game worthy of a le Carr novel the mole hunters squared off against a man who could have been the most damaging spy in US history a thrilling chase with the profound implications for the future of America Russia and the rise of Vladimir Putin.
language: English
title: The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia
publisher: Hachette Books