James JesusAngleton was a legend in the time of spies. Founder of US counterintelligenceat the end of World War II, ruthless hunter of moles and enemies of America,his name is synonymous with skullduggery and intellectual subterfuge. WilliamF. Buckley Jr. presents a subtle and thrilling fictional account of thespymaster’s life.

Fromhis early involvement in the World War II underground to the waning days of theCold War, Angleton pursued his enemies with a cool, calculating intelligence.Convinced that there was a turncoat within the CIA itself, he confused hisenemy by deceptive feints in order to distort his real objective: to captureand expose a traitor. The result was near-victory for American Intelligence—anddefeat for himself.

A brilliant re-creation of his world, Spytime tracesthe making and tragic unmaking of a man without peer and, in the end, a manwithout a country to serve.