The riveting true story of the father-and-son co-conspirators who sold US national secrets to Russia.
Jim Nicholson was the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage. A single father, respected mentor, and brilliant case officer, he was also a double agent selling thousands of state secrets to the Russians. However, it was from behind the bars of a federal prison that he conducted his greatest betrayal. Just 12 years after Jim's conviction, his youngest son, Nathan, was arrested for the same crime.
Through interviews, private letters, and access to Jim's personal journal, Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson pieces together a fascinating family portrait of a father so caught up in his life as a double agent that he manipulated his own son - an army veteran - to betray his country in order to stay loyal to his family.
Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the true story of the father and son co-conspirators, one a high-ranking CIA agent and the other an army veteran, who sold US national secrets to Russia.
'Full of stunning detail gleaned from hundreds of hours of interviews with Nathan [Nicholson] and FBI and CIA insiders. But it's the tension within the Nicholsons' motives for spying which is most compelling - was Jim using Nathan for his own narcissistic reasons or just trying to help his kids?? it's the minor ripples of the everyday life of spies which make Denson's investigative journalism so compelling.'
