Personal Name |
Drabkin, Ronald, author.
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Title Statement |
Beverly Hills spy / Ronald Drabkin.
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Edition Statement |
First edition.
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Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
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Physical Description |
x, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
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Formatted Contents Note |
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 Attachâe 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.
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Summary, Etc. |
"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.
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Subject-Personal Name |
Rutland, Frederick, 1887-1949.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
British Biography. California Los Angeles
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spies Biography. United States
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
British Biography. Japan
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Secret service Japan.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Secret service United States.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Espionage, Japanese History. United States
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Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Biography.
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