- Taschenbuch: 304 Seiten
- Verlag: Grove/Atlantic Inc (September 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0802139515
- ISBN-13: 978-0802139511
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,3 x 13,8 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 549.774 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The story seems to come straight out of a cold-war spy novel. In February 2001, FBI special agent Bob Hanssen was arrested as a double agent for Russian intelligence in what turned out to be the biggest sellout of U.S. national security secrets in the long history of the bureau. Why would someone spy on his own country? Vise, a Pulitzer Prize winner who broke the Hanssen story in the Washington Post, details how Hanssen did it and how he got caught but also offers a credible psychological profile. Hanssen grew up at the mercy of an abusive father who completely stripped his son of confidence and self-respect. As an FBI agent, Hanssen acted out the results of his boyhood abuse by fanning a growing resentment for the bureau. "His 'rage' at the FBI erupted each time he was passed over for promotion," the author reveals. "He fought back by attempting grand, daring feats of espionage. He failed to recognize that his progress at the FBI was inhibited by his [difficult] personality." This dramatic account--one more indictment of the FBI's record of late--is certain to be requested at the circulation desk. Brad Hooper
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Washington Post, Vise cracks the code on a stellar FBI agent turned Russian informant. Sounds good, so don't wait for the film, due out from Jerry Bruckheimer.
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Being a fan of spy-novels (Tom Clancy-style) and movies, watching the movie "Breach" which is based upon the story of Robert Hanssen's unmasking immediately fascinated me. So I read this book shortly afterwards and discovered that the thing you'd normally account to spy-novels happened (and probably are happening) in the real world as well, and that the downfall of the Soviet empire has not put and end to this. Also this book gives a unique opportunity to get a grip of the personality of a spy of Hanssen's magnitude, as we not only get to read the opinions of colleagues and psychologist, but also Hanssen's very own mails, E-mails and web-postings. I read this book on two subsequent days, which is a clear sign that although (or because?) it describes real people and events, it is even more thrilling than many novels I've read. People who watched the movie should also consider reading it, since Chris Cooper gives a Hanssen a much more charming (and obviously less detailed) appearance.
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Let's rate all three
10. Januar 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Consider this to be a sort of consumer's guide to the three Hanssen books on the market, from one who's read them all . . .
1. THE BUREAU AND THE MOLE has a good photo section but no index or bibliography, both essential in my opinion. Half of it is a bio of Louis Freeh, who should hang his head in shame rather than be credited for uncovering Hanssen. The sex revelations are here, but unless you like pornography I advise you to skip the part about Hanssen's postings on the internet. Still, the information about Bonnie Hanssen's brother--an FBI agent--who suspected him and was ignored is almost worth the price of the book. Four stars.
2. THE SPY NEXT DOOR has an index but no photos and no bibliography. The writing is a little wooden and there are little mistakes like getting the the church where the Hanssen's were married wrong. They have some sex stuff too, but thankfully no internet ramblings. A workmanlike job that reads like a Time magazine cover story. Three stars.
3. THE SPY WHO STAYED OUT IN THE COLD has photos, a bibliography and an index. It's also about 30 pages longer than the other two. Alas, no sex though the chapter on the stripper runs for some 12 pages and is titillating. It's the most complete with it's biggest scoop being that Hanssen told friends he wanted to be a double agent long before he joined the FBI and thus should have never been hired. Four-and-a-half stars.
1. THE BUREAU AND THE MOLE has a good photo section but no index or bibliography, both essential in my opinion. Half of it is a bio of Louis Freeh, who should hang his head in shame rather than be credited for uncovering Hanssen. The sex revelations are here, but unless you like pornography I advise you to skip the part about Hanssen's postings on the internet. Still, the information about Bonnie Hanssen's brother--an FBI agent--who suspected him and was ignored is almost worth the price of the book. Four stars.
2. THE SPY NEXT DOOR has an index but no photos and no bibliography. The writing is a little wooden and there are little mistakes like getting the the church where the Hanssen's were married wrong. They have some sex stuff too, but thankfully no internet ramblings. A workmanlike job that reads like a Time magazine cover story. Three stars.
3. THE SPY WHO STAYED OUT IN THE COLD has photos, a bibliography and an index. It's also about 30 pages longer than the other two. Alas, no sex though the chapter on the stripper runs for some 12 pages and is titillating. It's the most complete with it's biggest scoop being that Hanssen told friends he wanted to be a double agent long before he joined the FBI and thus should have never been hired. Four-and-a-half stars.
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Not Well Written
12. März 2002
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Though readable, David A. Vise's "The Bureau and the Mole" is poorly written, poorly researched, gratuitous and just not well thought out. It's a shame since a spy as good as Robert Hanssen deserves a better chronicler. The first indictation that the book was rushed include a major factual error in the very first chapter (Vise refers to the "Daley Machine" in Chicago circa the late 1930s, even though the senior Daley was not elected Mayor until 1955). The book then becomes a dual biography of Hannsen and FBI Director Loius Freeh, but because the narrative is a brief 229 pages, neither party gets more than a superficial telling of his life story. The book also contains lengthy verbatim passeges of Hannsen's letters to the Soviets and his fantasy e-mails, which shorten the already inadequate narrative even more. The e-mails are particularly offensive in that they detail Hannsen's perverted sexual fantasies about his wife to the point where the book starts to read like a degrading peep show.
In documenting Freeh's story, Vise relates every major FBI success and mistake during his tenure so that each get a scant few sentences of mention. Another example of underreporting comes from the account of how Hannsen's brother-in-law reported his suspicions that Hannsen was spying in 1990 and the FBI dropped the ball. Vise reports the fact, but apparently never attempted to find out WHY nothing was done. Another poor decision was interviewing psychologists who never treated or even met Hanssen to get "psychological insight" into the man. This ploy strikes me as less than worthless. I should also mention that apperently no interviews were done with Hannsen's immediate family members for insight into how his spying impacted their lives.
Overall, this book is a shoddy rush job that never should have been released in its present condition...
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1/2 of the story we wanted to read
26. November 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I expected a book about Robert Hanssen - how he spied and what made him tick. That came across in about half of the book. Unfortunately, Mr Vise didn't have enough material to write a book of reasonable length, so he improvised with a lot of uninteresting material on the life of FBI director Louis Freeh, and way too much rehash of the Aldrich Ames and Timothy McVeigh stories. Although a lot of interesting details emerged on Hanssen, I still don't understand the man. Several aspects of his life appear to contradict each other, and the psychiatrist explanations left me unfulfilled. This book in no way approaches the "Betrayal" book on Ames by Weiner, Johnston and Lewis.
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