title: The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
author: Milton Bearden
description: ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE MAIN ENEMY<br /><br />"Risen, the journalistic outsider, and Bearden, the clandestine insider, have combined their insight and knowledge to give us a compelling account of the last fierce days of Cold War machinations between Soviet and American intelligence. This is history very up close and very personal. --Seymour M. Hersh<br /><br />"Fascinating stuff . . . an inside view of a complex world . . . it doesn't get any better than this. It's great." --Robert De Niro<br /><br />"Some study war from an armchair; others through field glasses. The best go into the firing line. Milt Bearden of the CIA was one of those. For those of us who recall the Cold War, this is fascinating stuff. For those who are too young, read and learn."--Frederick Forsyth, author of <i>The Day of the Jackal</i> and<i> The Dogs of War</i><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  # THEY WERE PLAYERS ON AN INTERNATIONAL STAGE.
  
  
  **_MISSIE O’BRYAN—_** She rescued the Ivanoff gems and buried the Ivanoff
  secret for a lifetime—until the cursed emerald came back to haunt them all.
  
  
  **_GENIE REESE—_** What began as a routine TV network assignment soon became a
  web of deceit and seduction—the scoop of the century for a reporter smart,
  lucky, and daring enough to discover the truth—and survive.
  
  
  **_VALENTIN SOLOVSKY—Suave_** , sophisticated, handsome, a Soviet diplomat and
  trained killer in search of the “Lady” … on a mission that could cost him his
  life.
  
  
  **_FERDIE ARNHALDT—It_** was only a matter of time before the invisible third
  player secretly stole the prize. And in matters of blood and money, the Baron
  Arnhaldt put the KGB to shame.
  
  
  **_LEYLA KAZAHN—K_** ravishing Eurasian model, she was the courier who would
  unwittingly unleash the hounds of hell on the “Lady” she was pledged to save.
  
  
  “ADLE