Ernest Volkman, Author John Wiley & Sons $32.5 (264p) ISBN 978-0-471-01492-8
This collection of espionage and intelligence stories will entertain a wide variety of readers. Each chapter is a good yarn, from the reconstruction of the ULTRA operation, in which the British solved German coded communications, giving the Allies...
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Ernest Volkman, Author Franklin Watts $0 (271p) ISBN 978-0-531-15024-5
The December 11, 1978, robbery of the Lufthansa cargo terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport was the most lucrative heist in U.S. history up to that time. Volkman, a former Newsday correspondent, and Cummings, a reporter for that Long Island...
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Ernest Volkman, Author John Wiley & Sons $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-471-55714-2
Volkman ( Secret Intelligence ) here offers a collection of short biographies of nearly 50 of the century's major secret agents and those who ``ran'' them. The cast includes such well-known operatives as Kim Philby, mole of moles; Klaus Fuchs, who...
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Ernest Volkman, Author Faber & Faber $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-571-19942-6
After coauthoring an Edgar-nominated bio of John Gotti (Goombata, 1990) and an account of the $8-million 1978 Lufthansa robbery that provided grist for the film Goodfellas (The Heist, 1986), among other books, Volkman has now written an exciting,...
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Ernest Volkman, Author, John Cummings, With Onyx Books $5.5 (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-40429-9
Volkman and Cummings ( Goombata ) dramatically tell the story of a murder investigation full of absorbing twists. Robert Fioretti was an arrogant, authoritarian New York City cop who was demoted to a ``dumping ground for problem cops.'' When...
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Ernest Volkman, Author, Blaine Volkman, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-385-24590-6
For the most part, this is a lucid review of the development of U.S. intelligence in the present century, from its amateurish thrashings during the 1919 ``Red scare,'' to CIA involvement in the Iran- contra affair. The authors discuss how technology
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