LFPL's At the Library Series

Blaine Harden has served as The Washington Post's bureau chief in Northeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. He was a national correspondent for The New York Times and has contributed to The Economist, PBS Frontline, Time, and Foreign Policy. His latest book, King of Spies, tells the gripping account of the most powerful American spy you've never heard of, whose role at the center of the Korean War—which gave rise to the North Korean regime— is essential to understanding one of the most intractable foreign policy conflicts of our time.