Firebird

by James Carroll

With McCarthy-era Washington rife with rumors of atomic secrets being leaked to the Soviets, FBI agent Malone is drafted to steal the top-secret Soviet code book and enters a world of intrigue and danger

Genres: Fiction

592 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

James Carroll was born in Chicago and raised in Washington, D.C. He has been a civil rights worker, an antiwar activist, and a community organizer in Washington and New York. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1969 and served as Catholic chaplain at Boston University. Carroll left the priesthood to become a novelist and playwright. He lives in Boston with his wife, the novelist Alexandra Marshall, and their two children.

Reviews

[Cary Boswell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great spy story with inside workings of Washington and the FBI in the 50's with the Communist scare. A p0ssible scenario that the Rosenbergs and Klaus Fuchs were scapegoats for the real leaker of atomic secrets.

[Brenda Hines · Rating 1 out of 5]

I actually stopped reading at chapter 10. Super slow book and I found it to be very boring and never caught my attention.

[Sheila · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the only book I read of this writer it was okay never read any other.