The Flight of the Falcon
by Robert Lindsey
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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 show more Soviet agents since the Rosenbergs--escaped. Boyce was to become America's most wanted fugitive and the focus of an unprecedented, massive manhunt for eighteen months. Scores of FBI agents and U.S. Marshals sifted through hundreds of false leads. 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 embarassing lack of reults. Although THE FLIGHT OF THE FALCON is a thrilling chase and suspense story, it is also a fine study of character and psychological drama--the metamorphosis of an idealistic young man into a coarse and violent criminal fugitive. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The Flight of the Falcon
- Original title
- The Flight of the Falcon
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- Christopher John Boyce
- Epigraph
- What follows is a true story.
The names of some of the
participants have been changed
to protect their privacy - Dedication
- To Susan and Steven
with love - First words
- Two hands reached up, as if from a grave, and pushed aside the grate.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The Soviet Government never replied to this appea from Christopher John Bryce/
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 327.1 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science International Relations: Spies Foreign policy and specific topics in international relations
- LCC
- UB271 .R92 .B694 — Military Science Military administration Military administration Intelligence
- BISAC
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- 108
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 1
