In the Enemy's House

‘The spy hunt set off by the Venona decrypts is one of the great stories of the Cold War and Howard Blum tells it here with the drama and page-turning pace of a classic thriller.’ – Joseph Kanon, bestselling author of Defectors, Leaving Berlin, and Los Alamos‘A finely detailed study of crime and punishment in the days of the Manhattan project… [In the Enemy’s House] reinforces several points: how thoroughly Soviet agents were able to penetrate the government and scientific circles and the undeniable guilt of those who were eventually brought to justice – and, to boot, the ordinariness of some of the key players. Taut and well-crafted – of great interest to students of spydom and the early Cold War.’ * Kirkus Reviews *

Howard Blum is an American author and journalist. Formerly a reporter for the The Village Voice and The New York Times, he is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of several non-fiction books, including the New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner American Lightning. While at the New York Times, he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.