Image: (CBS/The Early Show)Legendary CIA Agent Bob Ames To Get Full Biography, 30 Years After Bombing Death -- Spy Talk/Washington Post
Bob Ames is finally getting a book of his own.
Washington author Kai Bird, co-author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of atomic scientist Robert Oppenheimer, is turning his sights on Ames, the legendary CIA operative who died in the 1983 bombing of the American embassy in Beirut.
Crown-Broadway paid six figures for the book, scheduled for publication on the 30th anniversary of Ames' death, according to publishing sources.
Ames was the closest thing the CIA had to James Bond, it's sometimes said. A year shy of 50 at the time of his murder, Ames makes at least a cameo appearance in most treatments of U.S. policy in the Middle East, as well as, in fictional form, the spy novels of Washington Post columnist David Ignatius and others. A full treatment of him is long overdue, many say.
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My Comment: CBS did a story on him a few years ago, that link is here.
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