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Spike, The

By: Crown Publishing Group

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Mystery Novels (Crown Publishing Group)

Last Stocked on 7/25/2020

Product Info

Title
Spike, The
Category
Sub-category
Author
Arnaud De Borchgrave, Robert Moss
Publish Year
1980
Pages
374
Dimensions
6.5x9.5x2"
NKG Part #
2147562248
Type
Novel - Hardcover

Description

The Spike? A newspaper term that means a story is killed because an editor doesn't like its politics. It means slanting the news, by omission. It means politics governs news. And it is politics that are at issue here.

Robert Hockney, young liberal journalist, scourge of the Nixon White House and the CIA, and lover of a radical sex symbol, is forced from his job when he insists on investigation an unfashionable theme; the way that media bias, fostered by the KGB's sinister Directorate A, has anesthetized public awareness to the thrust of Russia's bid for global supremacy.

Following a trail that leads him from the jungles of Vietnam to the terrorist lairs of Hamburg and Rome, from high society orgies in Paris to the discovery of the Soviet "mole" who burrowed his way to the heart of National Security Council in Washington, Hockney's dangerous journey lays bare to the reader what could very well be the secret history of our times. Spies, agents, double agents, moles, bribes, seduced high officials, trained sex experts, and special investigators crowd the scene with blackmail, assassinations, suicides, and mysterious disappearances.