Description
On the night of May 19, 1985, John Anthony Walker, Jr., deposited documents containing 129 stolen naval secrets wrapped in a plastic bag at an isolated KGB dead drop near Poolesville, Maryland. Then he drove on to another designated drop point to pick up the bundle of cash, more than $200,000, that was to be his payment. There was nothing there. Disturbed, Walker went back to retrieve the plastic bag. It was gone. He reluctantly returned to his Rockville motel room, convinced he had at last been discovered by the FBI-but when there was no effort to stop or arrest him, it seemed likelier that the Russians had simply screwed up. In his nearly twenty years of treason, of spying for the USSR, this had happened twice before. But this time John Walker was wrongWhen he left his room to hide the maps and photographs of the drop sites, handgun at the ready, two FBI agents leapt out at him. What The New York Times was to call "the most damaging espionage operation in American history" had been disarmed at last. Pete Earley's gripping book is shocking in its revelations. The tale of master spy John Walker, Jr., and his ring-his Navy seaman son, Michael, who had supplied that night's documents from his ship, the nuclear aircraft cartier Nimitz, Walker's gullible brother, Arthur; and Walker's best friend, retired naval communications specialist Jerry Whitworth -is dazzling in its detail and especially appalling in the portrait it paints of the amoral, egocentric mastermind of the ring. ISBN:9780553052831
