Description: "A thin, balding, and reclusive middle-aged Russian by the name of Rudolf Ivanovich Abel was one of the Soviet Union's most renowned spies during the Cold War of the 1950s...until his cover was blown by an incompetent colleague who wanted to defect to the United States. This is the full account of Abel's espionage work, his dramatic apprehension, his eventual conviction and its affirmation by the United States Supreme Court, and finally, his surprising release back to Russia"--
Brief description: Cecil Kuhne is a litigator with one of the world's largest law firms and has published twenty books with the American Bar Association, including Business Bribes: Corporate Corruption and the Courts, dealing with the seamy world of corporate payoffs in this country and abroad. The author has also written and edited eighteen other books, dealing primarily with adventure travel.