DAVID E. HOFFMAN

The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Payá, a dissident who dared to defy Fidel Castro, inspiring thousands of Cubans to fi

Los oligarcas es una apasinante crónica periodística que analiza en detalle el auge de 4 hombres de negocios rusos: Anatoly Chubais, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berozovsky y Vladimir Gusinsky, que acabaron siendo los oligarcas que modelaron el paisaje economico y politico de la nueva Rusia. Todos eran ciudadanos rusos corrientes hasta que llego el colapso de la Union Sovietica. Hoffman, corresponsal del Washington Post en Moscu, explora el pasado de cuatro de los oligarcas y desvela las causas que han definido su caracter predatorio y su gran influencia en la actual Rusia.

Ao sair da embaixada americana em Moscovo na noite de 16 de fevereiro de 1978, o chefe de posto da CIA ouviu uma pancada na janela do seu carro. Um homem no passeio entregou-lhe um envelope cujo conteudo aturdiu a inteligencia americana: detalhes da investigaço sovietica ultrassecreta e desenvolvimentos na tecnologia militar que eram totalmente desconhecidos para os Estados Unidos. Nos anos que se seguiram, Adolf Tolkachev, engenheiro num gabinete de design militar sovietico, usou o seu acesso de alto nivel para entregar dezenas de milhares de paginas de segredos sovieticos. Tais revelaçes permitiram a America reformular os seus sistemas de armas para derrotar o radar sovietico no solo e no ar, dando aos Estados Unidos uma quase total superioridade nos ceus sobre a Europa. Durante anos, conseguiram iludir o temido KGB no seu proprio territorio, ate que chegou o dia em que uma traiço inesperada pos tudo em risco. UM RELATO FASCINANTE DE ESPIONAGEM E TRAIÇO DURANTE OS ULTIMOS ANOS DA GUERRA FRIA Baseando-se em arquivos da CIA recentemente disponibilizados e em entrevistas com os protagonistas, David Hoffman criou um retrato sem precedentes e pungente de Tolkachev, um homem motivado pelas depredaçes do Estado sovietico para dominar a arte de espiar contra o seu proprio pais. Agitado, imprevisivel e por vezes insuportavelmente tenso, esta e uma brilhante reportagem que se desenrola como um thriller de espionagem.

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIAs Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War While driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIAs Moscow station heard a knock on his car window. A man on the curb handed him an envelope whose contents stunned U.S. intelligence: details of top-secret Soviet research and developments in military technology that were totally unknown to the United States. In the years that followed, the man, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer in a Soviet military design bureau, used his high-level access to hand over tens of thousands of pages of technical secrets. His revelations allowed America to reshape its weapons systems to defeat Soviet radar on the ground and in the air, giving the United States near total superiority in the skies over Europe. One of the most valuable spies to work for the United States in the four decades of global confrontation with the Soviet Union, Tolkachev took enormous personal risksbut so did the Americans. The CIA had long struggled to recruit and run agents in Moscow, and Tolkachev was a singular breakthrough. Using spy cameras and secret codes as well as face-to-face meetings in parks and on street corners, Tolkachev and his handlers succeeded for years in eluding the feared KGB in its own backyard, until the day came when a shocking betrayal put them all at risk. Drawing on previously secret documents obtained from the CIA and on interviews with participants, David Hoffman has created an unprecedented and poignant portrait of Tolkachev, a man motivated by the depredations of the Soviet state to master the craft of spying against his own country. Stirring, unpredictable, and at times unbearably tense, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting that unfolds like an espionage thriller.