The Good Spy; The Life and Death of Robert Ames
New York: Crown Publishers, 2014. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xiv, [4], 430 pages. Illustrations, black & white. Cast of Characters. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Endpaper map. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Kai Bird (born September 2, 1951) is an American author and columnist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Bird's biographical works include The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms and The Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment. His Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956–1978, is a meld of memoir and history. The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames is a biography of CIA officer Robert Ames, whose career focus was the Middle East. Ames played a key role in starting the peace process that led to the Oslo accords between Israel and the PLO. Ames perished in the April 18, 1983 truck bombing of the American embassy in Beirut. More