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NONFICTION: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske ∙My Many Years, Arthur Rubinstein ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The Russian Empire, Chloe Obolensky White House Years, Henry Kissinger
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙ The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The Russian Empire, Chloe Obolensky White House Years, Henry Kissinger
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys, Andrew Birkin ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Falcon andthe Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The Russian Empire, Chloe Obolensky ∙White House Years, Henry Kissinger
...FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN by Robert Lindsey
...Falcon and the Snowman omits no telling detail - about falconry, the drug trade, spy satellites, the duo's stoned bum-bung, and their torturous legal battles after capture. But there are enough tantalizing loose ends in the book to make it clear that Lindsey is describing life, not art. Why, for instance, did TRW put a 21-year-old, $140-a-week college dropout in such a sensitive post? Did the leaks really damage U.S. security? Perhaps Boyce and Lee actually were being used by the CIA to spread false evidence. If not, concludes Lindsey, then "the affair...