True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy

  • Author: Kati Marton
  • Narrator: Amanda Carlin
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 8:57:52
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Synopsis

“Kati Marton’s True Believer is a true story of intrigue, treachery, murder, torture, fascism, and an unshakable faith in the ideals of Communism….A fresh take on espionage activities from a critical period of history” (Washington Independent Review of Books).

True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American who spied for Stalin during the 1930s and forties. Later, a pawn in Stalin’s sinister master strategy, Field was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his own Communist comrades.

How does an Ivy League-educated, US State Department employee, deeply rooted in American culture and history, become a hardcore Stalinist? The 1930s, when Noel Field joined the secret underground of the International Communist Movement, were a time of national collapse. Communism promised the righting of social and political wrongs and many in Field’s generation were seduced by its siren song. Few, however, went as far as Noel Field in betraying their own country.

With a reporter’s eye for detail, and a historian’s grasp of the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century, Kati Marton, in a “relevant…fascinating…vividly reconstructed” (The New York Times Book Review) account, captures Field’s riveting quest for a life of meaning that went horribly wrong. True Believer is supported by unprecedented access to Field family correspondence, Soviet Secret Police records, and reporting on key players from Alger Hiss, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and World War II spy master, “Wild Bill” Donovan—to the most sinister of all: Josef Stalin. “Relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it can take one to” (Publishers Weekly), True Believer is “riveting reading” (USA TODAY), an astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carré.

Chapters

  • TrueBeliever 01 Title

    Duration: 32s
  • TrueBeliever 02 Preface

    Duration: 08min
  • TrueBeliever 03 Introduction

    Duration: 09min
  • TrueBeliever 04 Ch1

    Duration: 12min
  • TrueBeliever 05 Ch2

    Duration: 12min
  • TrueBeliever 06 Ch3

    Duration: 33min
  • TrueBeliever 07 Ch4

    Duration: 27min
  • TrueBeliever 08 Ch5

    Duration: 29min
  • TrueBeliever 09 Ch6

    Duration: 30min
  • TrueBeliever 10 Ch7

    Duration: 11min
  • TrueBeliever 11 Ch08

    Duration: 23min
  • TrueBeliever 12 Ch09

    Duration: 12min
  • TrueBeliever 13 Ch10

    Duration: 26min
  • TrueBeliever 14 Ch11

    Duration: 13min
  • TrueBeliever 15 Ch12

    Duration: 06min
  • TrueBeliever 16 Ch13

    Duration: 23min
  • TrueBeliever 17 Ch14

    Duration: 15min
  • TrueBeliever 18 Ch15

    Duration: 09min
  • TrueBeliever 19 Ch16

    Duration: 13min
  • TrueBeliever 20 Ch17

    Duration: 22min
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