The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl

The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage

Mara Hvistendahl

336 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction politics science informative slow-paced

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A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa e...

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