Center Point, 2018. Large type/Large print. Library Binding. ***Large Print Edition*** New hardcover in glossy case wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. (5.8 x 1.3 x 8.5 inches) Includes black and white photos and a bibliography. Large Print Edition. 430 pp. New. Item #202120
ISBN: 9781683246756

In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was repairing Jeeps o the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three months' training, he was sent to Korea. Though he lacked he pedigree of most U.S. spies - Nichols was a 7th grade dropout - he quickly metamorphosed from army mechanic to black ops phenomenon.

But Nichols' triumphs had a dark side. Immersed in a world of torture and beheadings, he became a spymaster with his own secret base, his own secret army, and his own rules. Blaine Harden traces Nichols' unlikely rise and tragic ruin, from his birth in an operatically dysfunctional family in New Jersey to his sordid postwar decline, which began when the U.S. military sacked him in Korea, sent him to an air force psych ward in Florida, and subjected him - against his will - to months of electroshock therapy.

King of Spies reminds us that the darkest sins of the Vietnam War - and many other conflicts that followed - were first committed in Korea.

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