Family Treason
Subtitle: The Walker Spy Case
By: Jack Kneece.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Stein and Day
Published: September 22, 1986
Place of publication: Briarcliff Manor, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardocver
Number of pages: 240
Copyright date: 1986
Subjects: Walker, John Anthony, 1937-; Walker family.; Whitworth, Jerry, 1939-; Espionage, Soviet -- United States -- History.; Anti-submarine warfare -- United States -- History.; Anti-submarine warfare -- Soviet Union -- History.
First sentence: He was a man who may have cost thousands of American lives in Vietnam, who had handed the Soviets years of submarine, missile, and communications technology, secret U.S. war contingency plans, and allowed the Soviets to decipher U.S. codes and duplicate U.S. cryptographic equipment.
Description: Go behind the newspaper headlines to the shaping of a master spy, John Walker: his early burglary conviction, his undetected double life aboard nuclear submarines, his extracurricular sex life, and his decades-long smuggling of secret documents to the Soviets.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 235.
Includes index.
First published in 1986
$17.95
12 unnumbered pages of black-and-white photographs between pages 196 and 197.