A haunting book as fast paced and as exciting as the best spy novel and its all true Robert Lindsey author of The Falcon and the SnowmanInvestigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsonsfather and son co-conspirators who deceived their country by selling national secrets to RussiaJim Nicholson was one of the CIAs top veteran case officers By day he taught spycraft at the CIAs clandestine training center The Farm By night he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids But Nicholson led a double life For more than two years he had met covertly with agents of Russias foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents In Nicholson became the highest ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage But his duplicity didnt stop there While behind the bars of a federal prison the former mole systematically groomed the one person he trusted most to serve as his stand-in his youngest son Nathan When asked to smuggle messages out of prison to Russian contacts Nathan saw an opportunity to be heroic and to make his father proud.
