Book description
For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York
intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained
hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI - a footnote buried in
the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when
Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House.
THE LOST SPY at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first
Americans to spy for the Soviets. Based on six years of international
sleuthing, THE LOST SPY traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail - a
brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in
Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria -
and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory. Andrew Meier, a
former Moscow correspondent for TIME magazine, is the author of BLACK
EARTH, which was named a Book of the Year by the TLS, the ECONOMIST and
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. He lives in New York.
