Through every era of American history, New York City has been a battleground for international espionage, where secrets are created, stolen, and passed through clandestine meetings and covert communications. Some spies do their work and escape, while others are compromised, imprisoned, and—a few—executed. Spy Sites of New York City takes you inside this shadowy world and reveals the places where it all happened. In 233 main entries as well as listings for scores more spy sites, H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace weave incredible true stories of derring-do and double-crosses that put even the best spy fiction to shame. The cases and sites follow espionage history from the Revolutionary War and Civil War, to the rise of communism and fascism in the twentieth century, to Russian sleeper agents in the twenty-first century. The spy sites are not only in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx but also on Long Island and in New Jersey. Maps and 380 photographs allow readers to follow in the footsteps of spies and spy-hunters to explore the city, tradecraft, and operations that influenced wars hot and cold. Informing and entertaining, Spy Sites of New York City is a must-have guidebook to the espionage history of the Big Apple.

本書は、大都市ニューヨークの深層に潜む「裏切りの地勢図」を暴き出す圧巻の記録です。単なるガイドブックの枠を超え、日常の裏側に潜む緊迫感と人間の業を情熱的に描き出しており、歴史の転換点となった密談や、孤独に消えた工作員たちの足跡が、読者の目の前で生々しく蘇ります。 諜報の専門家による緻密な考証は、いかなるフィクションも及ばない重厚な文学的リアリズムを宿しています。都市という空間を「隠蔽された記憶の集積体」として再構築する筆致は、知的好奇心を極限まで刺激します。見慣れた風景が国家の命運を懸けた戦場へと変貌する瞬間に、読者は背筋が凍るような興奮を覚えるでしょう。