{"product_id":"9781886420243","title":"The Spymaster","description":"With this novel, the author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInquest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eExecutive Action\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  has managed fiction-created-from-fact that transcends and informs fact -- an electrifying saga of a remarkable man's public and private lives that is perhaps to the secret world of spydom what \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  was to oragnized crime. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Spymaster is Vivian T. Prescott, an American golden boy out of Yale's holy-of-holies. Skull and Bones, chum of Jack Kennedy, athlete, lover, son of FDR's confidant...then with Wild Bill Donovan's World War II OSS, going up against Heydrich andeven Hitler...Cold War go-between to masterspy Gehlen...nemesis of J. Edgar Hoover...and finally Director of Central Intelligence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis life and career encompass the \"mole\" Kim Philby, the Rosenbergs, the U-2 crisis and the Bay of Pigs...a story that projects who really plotted the Kennedy and King assassinations, and what JFK would have done about the CIA and the Vietnam war had he lived. It dramatically poses who was in truth running the secret government in the United States--a CIA faction that infiltrated Nixon's reelection committee, and went out of control behind the chaos of Watergate, almost tearing the country asunder...more intrigues than one ever suspected -- with Kissinger, the coverups, the tapes, the tricks, the FBI... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVivian Prescott, Spymaster, was also a man whose desire for one woman shrouded a profound and secret grief for another, and whose life, like his country's, was a torrent of surprise, betrayal and heroic promise. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cb\u003eBoson Books\u003c\/b\u003e comes this epic story of the shocking secret America behind and beyond the facts as reported in the last 35 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe China Card\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e by Donald Freed is also available from Boson Books. For an author bio and photo, reviews and a reading sample, visit bosonbooks.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"C\u0026M Online Media, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172549673200,"sku":"9781886420243","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781886420243_p0.jpg?v=1763606035","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781886420243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}