Operation Solo is America's greatest spy story. For twenty-seven years, Morris Child's, codenamed "Agent 58," risked his life to provide the United States with the Kremlins innermost secrets. On fifty-two clandestine missions, "Agent 58" was treated like royalty by communist leaders worldwide because Morris was in effect the second-ranking man in the U.S. Communist Party. They trusted him as both a friend and confidant and frequently relied on his advice. They never knew he was working for the FBI. Operation Solo ventures into the recesses of the Kremlin and the FBI.

"Agent 58" obtained a copy of Khrushchev's secret speech condemning Josef Stalin's mass murders, and communism never fully recovered from the speech's publication by the U.S. State Department. This operation-which the FBI officially considers the greatest in its history-forewarned the United States of Soviet intentions in other countries and much more. Through first-hand accounts, Operation Solo tells the story of the conflicts within the FBI and American intelligence about the operation and how the FBI managed to keep that operation hidden from everyone, including the CIA. Bestselling author John Barron tells the revealing and gripping story of a truly remarkable patriot and the FBI agents involved in the most significant and successful operation in the history of American intelligence. Book jacket.