Evan Thomas recreates the personal drama of four figures who risked everything to keep America out of war. They were Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes and Desmond FitzGerald. Within the inner circles of Washington, at the high point of American power in the world, they planned and acted to contain the Soviet threat - by stealth and "political action", and to do by cunning and sleight of hand what great armies could not be allowed to do. The fall of each man had momentous consequences for the CIA. Thomas draws on the CIA's own secret histories, as well as extensive interviews.
- ISBN10 0684825384
- ISBN13 9780684825380
- Publish Date 10 December 1996 (first published 3 April 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Pocket Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English