Filled with dramatic revelations The Lost Spy may be the most important American spy story to come along in a generation exploring the life and death of Isaiah Oggins one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. of illustrations. For half a century the case of Isaiah Oggins a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin s orders remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then in 1992 it surfaced briefly when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. The Lost Spy at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets.Based on six years of international sleuthing The Lost Spy traces Oggins s rise in beguiling detail a brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory. As harrowing as Darkness at Noon and as tragic as Dr. Zhivago The Lost Spy is one of the great nonfiction detective stories of our time.