| Description |
x, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pearl Harbor -- The Battle of Jutland -- Spurned by the RAF -- Dead US Marines -- The World's First Aircraft Carrier -- Geisha Party -- The Poker Game -- The Attempted Assassination of Charlie Chaplin -- The 1932 Summer Olympics -- The FBI and the Dead Spy -- The Attaché and the Sleeper -- Hollywood -- The Private Club -- Spy Work Is Not a Blank Check -- In Plain Sight -- The Coronation of King George VI -- The Secrets of the P-38 -- The Spy as a Good Father -- Many Strange Clues -- Counterspies -- Double Agent -- Tachibana -- The Blackmail of Charlie Chaplin -- The FBI Finally Wakes Up -- Beating the Suspect -- Political Fallout -- Meetings in Washington -- Looking for Spies in All the Wrong Places -- Pearl Harbor, Redux. |
| Summary |
"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index. |
| Subject |
Rutland, Frederick, 1887-1949.
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Espionage, Japanese -- United States -- History.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Japan.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.
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Spies -- United States -- Biography.
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British -- Japan -- Biography.
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British -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
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Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
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Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780063310070 (hardcover) |
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