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Copyright © 2016 by Kati Marton

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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition September 2016

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Marton, Kati.Title: The true believer : the secret life of Noel Field, Stalin’s last American spy / Kati Marton.

Description: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016. | “Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover”—Title page verso. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015041712 (print) | LCCN 2016006744 (ebook) | ISBN 9781476763767 (hardcover : alkaline paper) | ISBN 9781476763774 (paperback : alkaline paper) | ISBN 9781476763781 ()

Subjects: LCSH: Field, Noel Haviland, 1904–1970. | Spies—United States—Biography. | Communists—United States—Biography. | Stalin, Joseph, 1878–1953—Friends and associates. | Espionage, Soviet—United States—History. | United States—Foreign relations—Soviet Union. | Soviet Union—Foreign relations—United States. | United States—Foreign relations—1933–1945. | BISAC: HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence.

Classification: LCC E743.5.F47 M37 2016 (print) | LCC E743.5.F47 (ebook) | DDC 327.12092—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041712

ISBN 978-1-4767-6376-7

ISBN 978-1-4767-6378-1 (ebook)