Perfect Spy

by Berman, Larry

• ISBN13: 9780060888398
• ISBN10: 0060888393
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale-not to mention the most influential members of the South Vietnamese government and army. None of them ever guessed that he was also providing strategic intelligence to Hanoi, smuggling invisible ink messages into the jungle inside egg rolls. His early reports were so accurate that General Giap joked, "We are now in the U.S. war room." In Perfect Spy, Larry Berman, who An considered his official American biographer, chronicles the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating spies.

Author Biography

Larry Berman is a professor of political science at the University of California, Davis, and the author of three well-received books on Vietnam, including No Peace, No Honor

Table of Contents

Prologue: "I Can Die Happy Now"	p. 1
Hoa Binh: Spy and Friend	p. 21
The Apprenticeship of a Spy	p. 51
California Dreaming	p. 83
The Emergence of a Dual Life	p. 115
From Time to Tet	p. 155
The Blurring of Roles: April 1975	p. 191
In His Father's Shadow	p. 229
Epilogue: An Extraordinary Double Life	p. 267
Acknowledgments	p. 283
Note on Sources	p. 289
Notes	p. 291
Index	p. 321
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