To start this month, we have four very good and interesting recommendations from General Clark.

1) Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer : The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames
by Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer

Written by retired senior KGB officer Victory Cherkashin, working with former Moscow correspondent for Radio Free Europe, Gregory Fiefer, this book has been called “a gripping but soberly written expose on the Cold War spy game” by Publisher’s Weekly. Cherkashin relates how he recruited and handled disgruntled CIA officer Aldrich Ames and FBI special agent Robert Haussen. While focussing on Soviet spy craft, the book also gives details on US spying and counter spying, providing an insiders view of the spy business from just after World War II through the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.