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. 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.
#2399782 in Books 2014-05-09Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .67 x 6.00l; .88 #File Name: 1499398441296 pages
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