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Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away

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A taut, revelatory WWII history of espionage and suspense with an enigmatic, yet indelible spy at its center. American-born George Kovacs, recruited by Soviet Intelligence, drafted into the U.S Army and assigned to the Manhattan project, is the undetected spy you've likely never heard of. In true John le Carré fashion, Ann Hagedorn unpacks the twists and turns of this extraordinary odyssey evoking the tensions of Jewish life in 1930s Soviet Russia and Depression-era Iowa, New York City at the height the war, and the international tensions of a world racing to build the atomic bomb.
This “historical page-turner of the highest order” (The Wall Street Journal) tells the chilling, little-known story of an American-born Soviet spy in the atom bomb project during World War II, perfect for fans of The Americans and nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.

Born in Iowa, schooled in science at Columbia University, and as American as baseball, George Koval was the ultimate secret agent. Because he had security clearances to the Manhattan Project, he was able to pass inv...

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