Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal, The
Subtitle: New York, USA; Sydney, Australia; Toronto, Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; London, UK
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: ebook
ISBN-13: 9780062307798
Description: From "A Note to the Reader"

IN THE MAIN BUILDING OF the CIA’s sprawling Virginia campus, past the security guards and the detection machines, up a staircase and at the end of a winding corridor that doglegs to the left, is a windowless conference room. There is no name or number on the door. Inside, it has the feel of a space that might be used for a graduate seminar; there’s a whiteboard on one wall and a table long enough to sit a dozen or so intelligence analysts. But there were only two other people seated at the table on the June day when I was there--a distinguished agency historian and a press officer to watch over both of us. I had come with the hope of picking the scholar’s brain about Betty Pack, the British and American secret agent who had done so much to help the Allies win World War II.

It was, for me at least, a tense conversation. The CIA official knew, I suspected, a lot more than he was revealing, and I had the difficult task of trying to pull the information out of him. But he was a shrewd man who had spent a lifetime guarding secrets; he was not about to make an indiscreet revelation to me. Nevertheless, we both seemed to be enjoying the game until he took offense at something I had said.

I had announced that the book I intended to write would be a true story.
Table of contents: label: Dedication; label: Epigraph; label: A Note to the Reader; label: Part I
title: STORMING THE CASTLE; label: Chapter 1; label: Chapter 2; label: Chapter 3; label: Chapter 4; label: Part II
title: "A TERRIBLE RESTLESSNESS"; label: Chapter 5; label: Chapter 6; label: Chapter 7; label: Chapter 8; label: Chapter 9; label: Chapter 10; label: Chapter 11; label: Part III
title: "HIDDEN IN MY YESTERDAYS"; label: Chapter 12; label: Chapter 13; label: Chapter 14; label: Chapter 15; label: Chapter 16; label: Chapter 17; label: Chapter 18; label: Chapter 19; label: Chapter 20; label: Chapter 21; label: Chapter 22; label: Chapter 23; label: Part IV
title: ENIGMA; label: Chapter 24; label: Chapter 25; label: Chapter 26; label: Chapter 27; label: Chapter 28; label: Part V
title: THE LONG WAY HOME; label: Chapter 29; label: Chapter 30; label: Chapter 31; label: Chapter 32; label: Chapter 33; label: Part VI
title: WASHINGTON; label: Chapter 34; label: Chapter 35; label: Chapter 36; label: Chapter 37; label: Chapter 38; label: Chapter 39; label: Chapter 40; label: Part VII
title: BIG BILL AND LITTLE BILL; label: Chapter 41; label: Chapter 42; label: Chapter 43; label: Chapter 44; label: Chapter 45; label: Chapter 46; label: Chapter 47; label: Chapter 48; label: Chapter 49; label: Chapter 50; label: Chapter 51; label: Chapter 52; label: Chapter 53; label: Chapter 54; label: Epilogue; label: A Note on Sources; label: Acknowledgments; label: Bibliography; label: Index; label: About the Author; label: Also by Howard Blum; label: Credits; label: Copyright; label: About the Publisher