THE SPY WHO LOVED US The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game THOMAS BASS

"I enjoyed this book enormously and learned a lot. The Spy Who Loved Us is a fine read and a gripping story; but, most of all, it is an object lesson in why human intelligence and a great spy will always trump the most sophisticated espionage and surveillance technology. It's not the simple accumulation of information that counts. It's the recognition of what's important and then knowing what to do with it."
—Ted Koppel

"The story of Pham Xuan An is the revelation of a remarkable life and a remarkable man. Fictional accounts of practitioners of the Great Game—the craft of spying—come nowhere near the real thing that was practiced by An. In The Spy Who Loved Us, An is revealed as a man of split loyalties, who managed to maintain his humanity. Cast prejudices aside and you will discover a true hero, scholar, patriot, humanist, and masterful spy."
—Morley Safer, correspondent, CBS 60 Minutes and author of Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam

"This is a chilling account of betrayal of an American army—and an American press corps—involved in a guerrilla war in a society about which little was known or understood. The spy here was in South Vietnam, and his ultimate motives, as Thomas Bass makes clear, were far more complex than those of traditional espionage. This book, coming now, has another message, too, for me —have we put ourselves in the same position, once again, in Iraq?"
—Seymour Hersh, author of Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

"Thomas Bass has rendered a sensitive, revealing portrait of the strangely ambivalent personality I knew during the Vietnam War. In doing so he provides us with unique insights into the nature, conflicting sentiments, and heartbreak of many Vietnamese who worked with Americans, made friends with them, but in the end loved their land more and sought, as their ancestors had for a thousand years, to free it from all trespassers."
—Seymour Topping, former Southeast Asia bureau chief and managing editor of The New York Times

"[An] excellent biography, based on skillful and exhaustive interviews with An.... Contains fascinating insights and context on people and subjects that touched An's life…. Compelling."
--Vietnam