内容简介：
Web Ruble, a retired newspaper reporter of forty years, was serving in military intelligence in Europe in the 1950s when an enemy spy (a amolea) one day voluntarily surrendered to him. His book, The Lost Red Patriot, bears a few elements of that moleas life, but it is fiction. The story is transplanted to the Pacific Northwest, which Ruble later suspected was a main target of foreign espionage at the height of the Cold War. What happens when a spy is sent to America as a mole and his handlers forget about him? What becomes of him, then, when after twenty-eight years he tires of waiting and is so embedded in American lifeaincluding becoming a hotdog-eating football fanathat he wants to give up and become an American citizen? In the case of Friederich Kurt Walderaa communist agent trained in East Germany and a Christianahe endures years of moral agony and waits too long. When the Berlin wall tumbles and East Germany is about to collapse, he decides to surrender to U.S. authorities. However, the East German Stasi rediscover him, realize he knows too much, and dispatch assassins.