Table of Contents
A Note on Georgian Names ix
Key Players xi
Chapter 1 Death on a Lonely Road 1
Chapter 2 "Do They Think We're Idiots?" 13
Chapter 3 The Testimony of Two Spies and a Housewife 27
Chapter 4 An Obscure Hint 47
Chapter 5 Mr. American Lawyer 67
Chapter 6 Hometown of a Spy 85
Chapter 7 The Thief in Law 99
Chapter 8 "The Americans Knew Everything" 117
Chapter 9 A Visit to the Prosecutor General 139
Chapter 10 "No One Interviews Marina" 159
Chapter 11 A Georgian Education 181
Chapter 12 "You Need to Get That File" 197
Chapter 13 A Letter from the American Ambassador 213
Chapter 14 The Search for the Real Killer 227
Chapter 15 "They Beat Me" 245
Chapter 16 Official Interrogations 259
Chapter 17 A Reporter's Questions 277
Chapter 18 Confessions of an Old Soldier 299
Epilogue: The Spy Who Was Left Behind 319
Acknowledgments 323
Appendix Time line of Aldrich Ames's CIA career from 1983 to his arrest for espionage 325
Index 329