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Thomas Maier is the author of "MAFIA SPIES", the non-fiction spy thriller/murder mystery of how the CIA recruited two American mobsters to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro during the Cold War, with themes very timely to today's Trump era. In a starred review, Booklist called MAFIA SPIES "enormously fun...succeeds brilliantly." Maier's previous 2014 book "WHEN LIONS ROAR: The Churchills and the Kennedys," published by Random House's Crown imprint. He is also the author and a producer of "MASTERS OF SEX", the Showtime series based on his book of the same name, which tells the story of researchers Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson. His other books include: "The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings, which was adapted for Warner Home Video DVD ...more

Newsday: FBI docs show CIA chief leaked to spy pal Ernest Cuneo during the JFK assassination probe

What's inside my new book, THE INVISIBLE SPY? Much of it deals with Churchill's spies at Rockefeller Center in the days leading up to WWII.But the biggest scoop is from the Cold War section of THE INVISIBLE SPY.FBI documents show that former CIA chief Allen Dulles, while a member of the Warren Commission investigating JFK's murder, apparently was leaking to a spy friend Ernest Cuneo. It's the Read more of this blog post »
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The Kennedys: America's Eme...

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When Lions Roar: The Church...

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Mafia Spies: The Inside Sto...

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All That Glitters: Anna Win...

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Thomas Maier Thomas Maier said: " Check out the Paramount+ docuseries MAFIA SPIES, adapted from this new book. Be sure to get a copy of the new and updated TV tie-in version of this book. It includes 16 pages of the photos from the show. "

 

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"Thomas Maier’s “The Invisible Spy: The Untold True Story of an NFL Player Turned Spy and His Role in America's Covert WWII Operations” shatters the boundaries of traditional spy biographies by unearthing the astonishing saga of Ernest Cuneo—a man who" Read more of this review »
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“believed in a genetic predisposition toward homosexuality,”
Thomas Maier, Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love

“For nearly a decade, their secret remained safe. Rumors of a lab study devoted to sex, operating in the heart of St. Louis, never appeared on television or radio or in print. As a personal favor to Masters, St. Louis Globe-Democrat publisher Richard Amberg vowed his daily newspaper wouldn’t breathe a word to its readers. The city’s other competing paper, owned by Pulitzer, stayed mum. Reporters for the Associated Press and United Press International, the two wire services beaming scoops across the world, also knew of this sensational human experiment but refused to say anything to the American public.”
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