The Spy Next Door; The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. [8], 247, [1] pages. Authors' Note. Index. Inscribed by both authors to Cokie and Steve Roberts. Elaine Shannon, acclaimed veteran correspondent for Time and Newsweek, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can’t Win, which served as the basis for Michael Mann’s Emmy-winning NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, and its Emmy-nominated sequel, Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel. Shannon is a highly respected investigative reporter and an expert on terrorism, organized crime, and espionage. She is the author of The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen. Ann Blackman is an author and a journalist. Ann Blackman was a news correspondent for more than 30 years. She spent 16 years with TIME, joining the magazine in 1985 as deputy bureau chief in the Washington bureau. She also spent three years as a foreign correspondent in TIME’s Moscow bureau. In this biography of FBI agent Robert Hanssen, the authors tell how Hanssen was recruited, how he operated, and how his superiors failed to see the signs that this family man and bureaucrat was, for two decades, living a double life and passing intelligence secrets to the enemy. Robert Hanssen was, by all appearances, the quintessential suburban Dad devoted to his wife and 6 children, working a government job to pay for a four-bedroom, split-level house in a modest neighborhood of suburban Virginia. Deeply religious, he sent his kids to Catholic schools and colleges. He was also, by all appearances, a trusted and loyal FBI agent. For years he had helped the FBI counterintelligence team track and protect against Russian spies. He helped the FBI set up its computer networks. He had almost total access to the most sensitive material, including information about Russians who were secretly working for the U.S. He was in a position to betray more valuable secrets than almost anyone else. Condition: Very good / Very good.

Keywords: Robert Hanssen, FBI, Espionage, Intelligence, Russi Webster, Louis Freeh, KGB, CIA, Bonnie Hanssen, Jack Hoschouer

ISBN: 0316718211

[Book #78428]

Price: $100.00

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