KING OF SPIES (N)

The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea. 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 and shocking postwar decline. 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.