Books by David Wise, PH.D. and Complete Book Reviews
David Wise, PH.D., Author . Random $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-50745-8
Four previous books have attempted to unravel the mystery of how and why FBI staffer Robert Hanssen was able to sell secrets to the KGB for almost 22 years. None, however, have been as penetrating as this account by veteran spy author Wise (The...
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David Wise, PH.D., Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-385-19755-7
Wise, ( The Invisible Government; Spectrum knows his subject well, in this case the intelligence community's involvement with parapsychological warfare. Yet his third novel seems almost apologetic about its subject. While everything eventually fits...
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David Wise, PH.D., Author Random House (NY) $22 (325p) ISBN 978-0-394-58514-7
When Soviet intelligence officer Anatoly Golitsin defected to the West in 1961, he hinted strongly that a long-range penetration agent was active within the Central Intelligence Agency. The possibility of a ``mole'' in the ranks set CIA...
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David Wise, PH.D., Author Avon Books $5.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-72127-6
The author traces the CIA's Cold War efforts to uproot Soviet spies within its ranks. (June)
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David Wise, PH.D., Author Random House (NY) $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-50153-1
This is a remarkable true-life espionage thriller. For 21 years, beginning in 1959, plainspoken, modest U.S. Army Sgt. Joseph Cassidy successfully pretended to be a money-grubbing traitor to his country. In the eyes of his Soviet handlers, he was a...
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David Wise, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-547-55310-8
Wise (Spy) leads readers into the "the wilderness of mirrors that is counterintelligence" for this history of Chinese espionage against the U.S. He reveals how Chinese intelligence has used ethnic Chinese in the U.S. to penetrate American...
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