《纽约时报》(New York Times)畅销书作者《逃离14号营地》(Escape from Camp 14)以美国历史上最强大间谍之一的不为人知的故事回归,为美国在朝鲜战争中的角色及其遗产提供了新的视角。
1946年,上士唐纳德·尼科尔斯(Donald Nichols)在沉睡的关岛岛上修理吉普车时,引起了陆军反情报部队招募人员的注意。仅仅经过三个月的训练,他就被派往朝鲜,当时那里是麦克阿瑟太平洋司令部的一片死水。尽管他缺乏大多数美国间谍的血统——尼科尔斯是个七年级辍学的学生——但他很快就从陆军机械师变成了黑人特工。他潜入美国选中的韩国傀儡李承晚(Syngman Rhee)的感情,成为朝鲜战争中的关键角色,提前数月就朝鲜入侵发出警告,打破敌方密码,并确定美国在朝鲜的炸弹摧毁的大部分目标。
但尼科尔斯的胜利也有阴暗面。沉浸在一个折磨和斩首的世界里,他成了一个间谍,有自己的秘密基地,自己的秘密军队和自己的规则。他从难民营和监狱招募特工,让许多人因鲁莽的任务而丧命。他与李承晚的亲密关系意味着他目睹了数万名韩国平民在反共产主义清洗中被屠杀的事件,而且没有采取任何行动阻止甚至报告。尼科尔斯的秘密统治持续了令人震惊的11年。
在这本引人入胜的书中,布莱恩·哈登追溯了尼科尔斯不太可能的崛起和悲惨的毁灭,从他出生在新泽西一个功能失调的家庭,到战后他卑鄙的衰落,开始于美军在韩国解雇他,把他送到佛罗里达州的空军精神病院,并强迫他接受了数月的电击治疗。但《间谍之王》并不仅仅是一个美国间谍的故事:凝固汽油弹的村庄和断头的人,高层的谎言和长期的掩盖,它提醒我们,越南战争中最黑暗的罪行——以及随后发生的许多其他冲突——首先是在朝鲜犯下的。

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King of Spies : The Dark Reign of an American Spymaster

Harden, Blaine

Putnam Publishing Group, The

Center Point Large Print

Penguin Books

Puffin Books

Viking

Large print edition, Thorndike, Maine, 2018

United States, United States of America

1, 20171003

lg2816459

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The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy
In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was repairing jeeps on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three months' training, he was sent to Korea, then considered a backwater and beneath the radar of MacArthur's Pacific Command. Though he lacked the pedigree of most U.S. spies—Nichols was a 7th grade dropout—he quickly metamorphosed from army mechanic to black ops phenomenon. He insinuated himself into the affections of America’s chosen puppet in South Korea, President Syngman Rhee, and became a pivotal player in the Korean War, warning months in advance about the North Korean invasion, breaking enemy codes, and identifying most of the targets destroyed by American bombs in North Korea.
But Nichols's triumphs had a dark side. Immersed in a world of torture and beheadings, he became a spymaster with his own secret base, his own covert army, and his own rules. He recruited agents from refugee camps and prisons, sending many to their deaths on reckless missions. His closeness to Rhee meant that he witnessed—and did nothing to stop or even report—the slaughter of tens of thousands of South Korean civilians in anticommunist purges. Nichols’s clandestine reign lasted for an astounding eleven years.
In this riveting book, Blaine Harden traces Nichols's unlikely rise and tragic ruin, from his birth in an operatically dysfunctional family in New Jersey to his sordid postwar decline, which began when the U.S. military sacked him in Korea, sent him to an air force psych ward in Florida, and subjected him—against his will—to months of electroshock therapy. But King of Spies is not just the story of one American spy. It is a groundbreaking work of narrative history that—at a time when North Korea is threatening the United States with long-range nuclear missiles—explains the origins of an intractable foreign policy mess.

"The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was stationed on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three months' training, he was sent to Korea, then a backwater largely beneath the radar of MacArthur's Pacific Command. Though he lacked the education and pedigree of most spies, Nichols quickly metamorphosed from army mechanic to black ops phenomenon. He insinuated himself into the affections of South Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee, and became a key player in the American war effort, warning months in advance about the North Korean invasion, breaking enemy codes, and identifying most of the bombing targets used throughout the war. But Nichols's accomplishments had a dark side: he ran his own base and played by his own rules. He recruited agents from refugee camps and prisons, sending many to their deaths on reckless missions. And his proximity to Rhee meant that he witnessed - and did nothing to stop - the slaughter of thousands of South Korean civilians in anticommunist purges"-- Provided by publisher

封面
也是布莱恩·哈登写的
标题页
版权
题词
目录
朝鲜和韩国地图
从汽车库进来的间谍
第一部分:最有价值的间谍
第一章:韩国的尼科尔斯
第二章李氏父子
第三章:压制尼科尔斯先生
第二部分:战争间谍
第四章:黑暗之星
第五章:破译恶霸
第六章必要的手段
第七章岛屿帝国
第八章平壤名扬天下
第三部分:毁了的间谍
第九章被解雇
第十章震惊
第11章:漂泊与被告
第十二章:无异议
结语:间谍的坟墓
致谢
关于来源的说明
笔记
参考文献
索引
关于作者

2020-10-25