The Liar Audiobook Libro.fm

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The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher a double agent whose shifting loyalties and overthetop hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow

In the mid1970s the CIA and KGB were both watching Karel Koecher closelyand they were both convinced he was working for the enemy They were both right Traveling with his wife Hana Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA Koecher proceeded to operate as a double agent at the height of the Cold War

Shunning a low profile the Koechers embraced Manhattans high life with cocaine swinging and parties emblematic of the times and their penchant for riskHana who was no more than a shy teenager when she arrived grew into a sophisticated international diamond dealer that relayed messages to Karels handlers Riding a wave of euphoria the Koechersfelt unstoppableBut it wastoo good to last

Using newly declassified documents interrogation tapes and extraordinary firsthand accounts from the Koechers themselves Cunningham reconstructs their double livesand the fading Cold War where a strange moral fog made it hard to know what truth wasbeing fought for and to what end