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Overworld : The life and times of a reluctant spy
- Title
- Overworld : The life and times of a reluctant spy / Larry J. Kolb.
- Author
- Kolb, Larry J. (Larry Jackson), 1953-
- Publication
- New York : Riverhead Books, [2004], ©2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | JK468.I6 K65 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 465 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Larry Kolb was born into a house of spies. Raised all over the world as the son of a high-ranking American spymaster, he learned from his father to think, look, and listen like a spy. "The overworld" was his father's term for the powers-that-be, the figures behind the figure-heads who secretly shape the world we live in. Overworld is Larry Kolb's story of his own lifelong, intimate interaction with those powers: how his unusual childhood led to his own decision to turn down the CIA when they first recruited him, and how his ascent in the international business world - becoming, among other things, Muhammad Ali's agent and friend - became his unlikely path back into the world of espionage." "Unlike any book before it, Overworld casts in genuinely human terms what it means and feels like to be a spy. From the practical to the emotional, it reveals how the world of espionage and covert statecraft actually works, and exposes the dark heart of a life built on betrayals."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 1573222534 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004048228
- OCLC
- ocm55067151
- SCSB-5115791
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries