Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy - Ernest Hemingways Secret Adventures, 1935-1961Paperback

Specifikacia Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy - Ernest Hemingways Secret Adventures, 1935-1961Paperback

While he was the historian at the esteemed CIA Museum, NicholasReynolds, a longtime American intelligence officer, former U.S.Marine colonel, and Oxford-trained historian, began to uncover clues suggesting Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway was deeply involved in mid-twentieth-century spycraft -- a mysterious and shocking relationship that was far more complex, sustained, and fraught with risks than has ever been previously supposed. NowReynolds's meticulously researched and captivating narrative "looks among the shadows and finds a Hemingway not seen before" (LondonReview of Books), revealing for the first time the whole story of this hidden side of Hemingway's life: his troubling recruitment bySoviet spies to work with the NKVD, the forerunner to the KGB, followed in short order by a complex set of secret relationships with American agencies. Starting with Hemingway's sympathy to antifascist forces during the 1930s, Reynolds illuminatesHemingway's immersion in the life-and-death world of the revolutionary left, from his passionate commitment to the SpanishRepublic; his successful pursuit by Soviet NKVD agents, who valuedHemingway's influence, access, and mobility; his wartime meeting inEast Asia with communist leader Chou En-Lai, the future premier of the People's Republic of China; and finally to his undercover involvement with Cuban rebels in the late 1950s and his sympathy for Fidel Castro. Reynolds equally explores Hemingway's participation in various roles as an agent for the United States government, including hunting Nazi submarines with ONI-supplied munitions in the Caribbean on his boat, Pilar; his command of an informant ring in Cuba called the "Crook Factory" that reported to the American embassy in Havana; and his on-the-ground role inEurope, where he helped OSS gain key tactical intelligence for the liberation of Paris and fought alongside the U.S. infantry in the bloody endgame of World War II. As he examines the links betweenHemingway's work as an operative and as an author, Reynolds reveals how Hemingway's secret adventures influenced his literary output and contributed to the writer's block and mental decline (including paranoia) that plagued him during the postwar years -- a period marked by the Red Scare and McCarthy hearings. Reynolds also illuminates how those same experiences played a role in some ofHemingway's greatest works, including For Whom the Bell Tolls andThe Old Man and the Sea, while also adding to the burden that he carried at the end of his life and perhaps contributing to his suicide. A literary biography with the soul of an espionage thriller, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy is an essential contribution to our understanding of the life, work, and fate of one ofAmerica's most legendary authors.