{"product_id":"the-eagle-in-the-mirror-hardcover","title":"The Eagle in the Mirror - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJesse Fink\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, \u003ci\u003eThe Eagle in the Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e is the astonishing untold story of Charles Howard \"Dick\" Ellis, the Australian-born British intelligence officer and master spy accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe longest serving spy for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ellis came to New York at the beginning of World War II as deputy to William Stephenson at British Security Coordination (BSC) and helped set up for William Donovan the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), what would eventually evolve into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). At one point in the 1940s he was considered one of the top three secret agents in MI6, controlling its activities \"for half the world.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEllis allegedly received prior warning of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and, through the conduit of Stephenson, relayed that warning to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After World War II, Ellis was awarded the Legion of Merit by President Harry S. Truman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut in the 1980s espionage writer Chapman Pincher and retired Security Service (MI5) intelligence officer Peter Wright posthumously accused Ellis of having operated as a \"triple agent\" for Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1965, while under interrogation in London, Ellis had allegedly made a confession that he had supplied information to the Nazis prior to the war. The scope of Ellis's purported betrayal was considered even worse than notorious British traitor and double agent Kim Philby, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHowever, Pincher's and Wright's accusations against Ellis have never been comprehensively proven. Was Ellis guilty or was an innocent man framed? Did he take the fall for someone else? Or had the intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia been fatally compromised by a \"super-mole\"? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJesse Fink unravels a gripping real-life international whodunit in this long-overdue biography of the unheralded Dick Ellis, one of the most consequential figures in modern history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJesse Fink\u003c\/b\u003e is an internationally bestselling nonfiction author whose acclaimed biographies include \u003ci\u003eBon: The Last Highway\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC\/DC\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Eagle in the Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e. His books have been published in twenty countries in thirteen languages. Please visit him online at JesseFinkBooks.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.16 x 9.26 x 6.31 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748467212576,"sku":"9780806543680","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/30fa4bdf49d76c0c45c7c54229e53fb1.webp?v=1779910308","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-eagle-in-the-mirror-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}