News Updates

• Preface to Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

  2014-09-16

  My newborn son, just nine days old, was lying on the dining-room table, swaddled in his soft blue-and-white striped birthing blanket. A bearded stranger with a knife stood over him.

  
  

• Publishers Weekly starred review of The Good Spy - Feb 10, 2014

  2014-02-10

  More exciting than Le Carre's George Smiley or Fleming's James Bond, Bird (Crossing Mandelbaum Gate) recreates the life of C.I.A. superspy Robert Ames, an operative with a skill for appreciating the turns and twists of Mideast politics

  
  

• Kai's interview with Robert Siegel of NPR's All Things Considered April 21, 2010

  2010-04-21

  Kai's interview with Robert Siegel of NPR's All Things Considered April 21, 2010