The Fourth Man: The Hunt for the KGB’s CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin
Robert Baer
May 2022 · Monoray · Narrated by Robert Baer and Eric Jason Martin
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For the first time ever, New York Times bestselling author and former CIA operative Robert Baer tells the explosive story of how insiders believe a KGB mole rose to the highest ranks of the CIA.
In the aftermath of the Cold War, US intelligence caught three high-profile Russian spies. However, these arrests left major questions unanswered, and rumours have long swirled of another mole, often referred to as the Fourth Man. Three pioneering female veterans of counterintelligence were tasked with unearthing him. With steadfast determination and expertise, they came to a shocking conclusion, one which had, and continues to harbour, dramatic consequences for American security.
In this gripping insider account, Baer tells a thrilling story of Russian espionage and American intelligence. With profound implications for the rise of Vladimir Putin and international relations with Russia, The Fourth Man is a real-life spy thriller with echoes of John Le Carré.
(P) Octopus Publishing Group 2022
In the aftermath of the Cold War, US intelligence caught three high-profile Russian spies. However, these arrests left major questions unanswered, and rumours have long swirled of another mole, often referred to as the Fourth Man. Three pioneering female veterans of counterintelligence were tasked with unearthing him. With steadfast determination and expertise, they came to a shocking conclusion, one which had, and continues to harbour, dramatic consequences for American security.
In this gripping insider account, Baer tells a thrilling story of Russian espionage and American intelligence. With profound implications for the rise of Vladimir Putin and international relations with Russia, The Fourth Man is a real-life spy thriller with echoes of John Le Carré.
(P) Octopus Publishing Group 2022
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July 6, 2022
Had to refund. The narrator is so breathy and nasal I couldn't focus on the material. I was equally unimpressed by the author's prologue that was apparently done over the phone and then given tape-click noises to somehow add some kind of cold war espionage kudos to it, when the fact is, the publisher had the author speak a seemingly adlib prologue over the phone instead of recording him properly. It all smacks of low production values which conspire to devalue the work with poor first impressions.
About the author
Robert Baer is one of the most accomplished agents in CIA history and a winner of the Career Intelligence Medal. Security Analyst for CNN, he is considered one of the world's most foremost authorities on the Middle East and had contributed to TIME, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including See No Evil - which was adapted into the acclaimed film Syriana, earning George Clooney an Academy Award for his portrayal of Baer - and, most recently, The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins.
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