The Spy Next Door

By Elaine Shannon, Ann Blackman,

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Two veteran Time reporters present a riveting glimpse into the life of Robert Hanssen, a seemingly quintessential surburban father and a trusted and loyal FBI agent who, after fifteen years of extremely damaging espionage, betrayed his family, his church, and his country - and got away with it, destroying theā€¦

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If youā€™re like me, you canā€™t consume enough news about Robert Hanssen, the FBI Special Agent who sold out his country to Russia.

Elaine Shannon, the longtime Time Magazine correspondent, and Ann Blackman relied on more than 150 interviews in telling Hanssenā€™s story of deceit and depravity. They reveal the dramatic story of an ex-KGB officer stealing Hanssenā€™s KGB file, Hanssenā€™s obsession with kinky sex, and his (ironic) affiliation with the ultra-conservative and moralistic Catholic society, Opus Dei.

Still a great read, all these years later.

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