The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape and Manhunt for America's Most Wanted Spy - Tapa blanda

The true story of the massive manhunt to capture one of America's most wanted fugitives.

Christopher John Boyce was a son of affluence and privilege whose disaffection with America led him to sell to the Soviets sophisticated and highly secret spy-satellite information. Eventually uncovered and arrested, Boyce was convicted of espionage in Los Angeles, California, on June 20, 1977, and sentenced to forty years in a maximum-security federal penitentiary. Soon after his imprisonment, Boyce - the man prosecutors said had done more harm to the security of the United States than any Soviet agents since the Rosenbergs - escaped. Scores of FBI agents and U.S. Marshals sifted through hundreds of false leads in their search for Boyce. They traveled countless miles back and forth across America, to South Africa, through the isolated jungles of Central America. They were called on the carpet by Congressional committees for the often-publicized and embarrassing lack of results. The Flight of the Falcon is a thrilling chase and suspense story, and a finely wrought character of the metamorphosis of an idealistic young man into a coarse and criminal fugitive.