In the Enemy's House

The Greatest Secret of the Cold War

Howard Blum

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Amberley Publishing
15 October 2023

History; The Cold War; Military history

In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lampshere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet agents and protect the Holy Grail of Cold War espionage - the atomic bomb. Opposites in nearly every way, Lampshere and Gardner relentlessly followed a trail of clues that helped them identify and take down the Soviet agents one by one, including Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. They uncovered atom spy Klaus Fuchs in the UK. But at the centre of this spy ring, seemingly beyond the American agents' grasp, was the mysterious master spy who pulled the strings of the KGB's extensive campaign. Lampshere and Gardner began to suspect that a mole buried deep in the American intelligence community was feeding Moscow Centre information on Venona. They raced to unmask the traitor and prevent the Soviets from fulfilling Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's threat: 'We shall bury you!' A breathtaking chapter of history and a page-turning mystery that plays out against the tense, life-and-death gamesmanship of the Cold War, this twisting thriller begins at the end of World War II and leads all the way to the execution of the Rosenbergs - a result that haunted both Gardner and Lampshere.

By: Howard Blum
Imprint: Amberley Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 247g
ISBN: 9781398116368
ISBN 10: 139811636X
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 15 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Howard Blum is an American author and journalist. Formerly a reporter for the The Village Voice and The New York Times, he is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of several non-fiction books, including the New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner American Lightning. While at the New York Times, he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.

Reviews for In the Enemy's House: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War

'The spy hunt set off by the Venona decrypts is one of the great stories of the Cold War and Howard Blum tells it here with the drama and page-turning pace of a classic thriller.' -- Joseph Kanon, bestselling author of Defectors, Leaving Berlin, and Los Alamos 'A finely detailed study of crime and punishment in the days of the Manhattan project... [In the Enemy's House] reinforces several points: how thoroughly Soviet agents were able to penetrate the government and scientific circles and the undeniable guilt of those who were eventually brought to justice - and, to boot, the ordinariness of some of the key players. Taut and well-crafted - of great interest to students of spydom and the early Cold War.' -- Kirkus Reviews