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The Scientist and the Spy
- A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
- Narrated by: James Lurie, Mara Hvistendahl
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the US government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.
In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under contract with Monsanto. What began as a simple trespassing inquiry mushroomed into a two-year FBI operation in which investigators bugged the men’s rental cars, used a warrant intended for foreign terrorists and spies, and flew surveillance planes over corn country - all in the name of protecting trade secrets of corporate giants Monsanto and DuPont Pioneer. In The Scientist and the Spy, Hvistendahl gives a gripping account of this unusually far-reaching investigation, which pitted a veteran FBI special agent against Florida resident Robert Mo, who after his academic career foundered took a questionable job with the Chinese agricultural company DBN - and became a pawn in a global rivalry.
Industrial espionage by Chinese companies lies beneath the United States’ recent trade war with China, and it is one of the top counterintelligence targets of the FBI. But a decade of efforts to stem the problem have been largely ineffective. Through previously unreleased FBI files and her reporting from across the United States and China, Hvistendahl describes a long history of shoddy counterintelligence on China, much of it tinged with racism, and questions the role that corporate influence plays in trade secrets theft cases brought by the US government. The Scientist and the Spy is both an important exploration of the issues at stake and a compelling, involving listen.
Critic Reviews
“[A] fascinating and well-researched study.... Those looking for insights into the current tensions with China will be rewarded.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
“Not since Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest has a cornfield produced so much excitement.... Hvistendahl makes industrial espionage both understandable and riveting.... This is a complex story, but it's presented clearly and vividly, thanks to Hvistendahl’s background as a science journalist here and in China; to her exquisite pacing; and to her narrative skills... Hard to put down and harder to stop thinking about.” (Booklist, starred review)
"You will learn more about China from this thrilling, real-life drama than you will from a whole stack of China-related books by lesser talents. Mara Hvistendahl has given us an utterly original, provocative, and revealing tale of the relationship between China and the United States - and what a tale it is. Intrepid, humane, and always tough-minded, she writes with the lucid precision of a science writer and the flair of a seasoned spy novelist." (Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China)
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-03-20
Extremely Biased
There are two parts to this story. One is based in fact and an accurate portrayal of events. The other, read by the author, is composed of biased opinions and out of context quotes from weak sources and interviews. If your looking for fact based, informative reporting of a well documented event this book gets a 50% or F. If your looking for frothy opinions with extreme pro Chinese bias bordering on propaganda, this book gets 100% or A+.
8 people found this helpful
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- Todd
- 03-02-20
Should have been a magazine article
Way too many opinions and unsupported opinions. When several chapters are written in the first person narrative you can almost be assured you have come across an author that does not have a firm grasp of the facts. A very weak effort.
5 people found this helpful
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- Megan D
- 02-18-20
Good overall
I enjoyed this book very much. I heard Mara Hvistendahl do an interview on NPR months ago and waited anxiously for this book to come out. The whole premise was very interesting and, overall, it was a great listen. My only complaint is Ms Hvistendahl’s narrated sections. She did great as a whole, but there were a lot of strange pauses in the middle of sentences that, by the end, got to be a big difficult to listen to. I still highly recommend the book, it is a great listen.
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- krautland
- 02-22-20
excellent. a well-researched character study.
This is a fascinating dive into stories that lie behind the headlines of industrial espionage, China and rural farms in Iowa. From the seed dealer to the charming but flawed scientist Robert Mo there are no knights in shining armor just as there are no thoroughly reprehensible bad guys. Instead we hear stories of people finding themselves accused based on little more than their ethnicity and see real criminals making stupendously ill-advised decisions that change the course of their lives. Those who enjoyed documentaries like the recent "American Factory" that explore the similarities and differences between American and Chinese mindsets will find themselves rewarded by this well-researched character study.
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- Mark Fry
- 08-05-22
Interesting story ruined by woke politics
Skip the female narrative sections.
To the authors, just tell the story and skip the political narrative. What a shame.
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- Michael
- 08-21-20
completely misses the point
The book articulates well how trade theft is done, says it could cause hundreds of billions of dollars of lost dollars to the US, and then does an about face and says the $1-2b lost from the current trade war is more serious.
Quite unfortunate misunderstanding if the facts the book lays out. Also, it is incredibly partisan at the end, I'm not sure what happened to the authors.
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- A. S.
- 06-06-20
Nearly perfect Audible but, with VERY minor pronunciation errors
An absolutely addictive book, with a so-strange-it-can-only-be-true, I can’t recommend this enough. In this, the audible version there are just a couple of glaring — yet minor — pronunciation mistakes in some of Mara’s parts as to location names in the US, but otherwise a perfect listen.
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- Adrienne.in.KY
- 05-29-23
Well Written
This is a nicely woven story of both the personal and political sides of the events.
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- Tom Jensen
- 07-21-22
Skip woman narrator
Interesting story on Chinese espionage. Unfortunately the author is a China apologist and attempts to contort the story into something about xenophobia. I recommend listening to the book and skipping any chapter narrated by the author.
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- Megan Brown-Clark
- 03-06-21
Interesting but not great.
Struggled to find the protagonist...perhaps that was the point? Robert and the Goverment play both the victim and the criminal and as always the overarching theme of US racism is creeping behind the corner. It's a fitting book for 2020.
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- miss T A Boston
- 02-09-21
Slow starter!
This book caught my imagination when purchased, yet when reading the thoroughness of seed plantation did not need to be more or less spoken for 6 hours before the book broke into life. I understand people need a basic knowledge and understanding of the subject to hand, but it felt as though it was a degree I was study for, yet not knowing what examination questions would be at the end so read and learnt anything and everything for a few “meaningful matters”. Last two hours very gripping intense and insightful in what racism still is in our world. The first 6 hours very disappointing with minimal information needed for the conclusion.
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- Simon Caldwell
- 12-17-20
An interesting trip in two world i knew little of
A really interesting performance with the story and analysis were split between two narrators.
its about 2 worlds I knew very little about and helps to open your eyes especially around the thought of China stealing IP which you'd assume from the media is a huge problem but perhaps we need to think about this narrative a bit more
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- Adam Webb
- 05-05-20
Quite disappointing. Anti USA sentiments
I heard the authors interview on the podcast “Longform” and was immediately interested in the subject of industrial espionage. There are two narrators to this book - James Laurie who is quite good and secondly the author herself. The author is not a good narrator. She can’t maintain the even and consistent voice required to narrate professionally. Fortunately Laurie narrates the bulk of the novel. When the author narrates she has this appalling tendency to end every sentence with an upward inflexion. Just because you wrote the book doesn’t mean you should narrate it. Listening to the author narrate is akin to being forced to listen to a flock of adolescent girls talk. Needless to say I skipped the chapters she narrates after a while.
As to content, the book starts strongly on the topic of industrial espionage and was quite to my liking. But after some time, the subject strays to prosecutorial over reach of the FBI and the US Federal Government. The book becomes somewhat dull at this point and frankly, laborious. As the book progresses, an anti-USA sentiment rears its head and there is even a bit of Trump bashing in there which really diminishes the book.
Invariably, the author almost takes the side of the primary offender and sympathises with him. At the end of the day, he committed a crime and was convicted. The author cannot help but import systemic racism as a topic.
The book touches upon some interesting topics such as the ethical dilemma created by the FBI prosecuting intellectual property theft crimes on behalf of Monsanto and Pioneer given that much is made of Chinese government support for Chinese companies. This is a really interesting theme that goes unexplored.
Ultimately the book fails to thoroughly cover industrial espionage. It is at times poorly narrated and is a missed opportunity on the part of the writer.
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Compelling as historical thriller, character study
- By Mr. Pointy on 08-25-15
By: David E. Hoffman
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Russians Among Us
- Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present.
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Should be required reading for every citizen
- By Amazon Customer on 02-27-20
By: Gordon Corera
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Red Roulette
- An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
- By: Desmond Shum
- Narrated by: Tim Chiou
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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As Desmond Shum was growing up impoverished in China, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity he earned an American college degree and returned to his native country to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly intelligent and equally ambitious Whitney Duan who was determined to make her mark within China’s male-dominated society. Whitney and Desmond formed an effective team and, aided by relationships they formed with top members of China’s Communist Party, the so-called red aristocracy.
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Desmond Shum is not a rube! He knows about wine, ok?
- By Peter L Hansen on 10-06-21
By: Desmond Shum
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Chinese Communist Espionage
- An Intelligence Primer
- By: Peter Mattis, Matthew Brazil
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil present an unprecedented look into the murky world of Chinese espionage both past and present, enabling a better understanding of how pervasive and important its influence is, both in China and abroad.
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Unrelenting Mangled Chinese Listening Unbearable
- By Anonymous User on 03-20-21
By: Peter Mattis, and others
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Unnatural Selection
- Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
- By: Mara Hvistendahl
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in 10 years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have 24 million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. And gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia....
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Interesting idea but...
- By Seth P Dow on 07-30-15
By: Mara Hvistendahl
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How to Catch a Russian Spy
- The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Self-Taught Double Agent
- By: Naveed Jamali, Ellis Henican
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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For three nerve-wracking years, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the Russians, trading thumb drives of sensitive technical data for envelopes of cash, selling out his own beloved country across noisy restaurant tables and in quiet parking lots. Or so the Russians believed. In fact this young American civilian was a covert double agent working with the FBI. The Cold War wasn't really over. It had just gone high tech.
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The whole book is a humblebrag.
- By ar on 07-01-15
By: Naveed Jamali, and others
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The Billion Dollar Spy
- A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
- By: David E. Hoffman
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States.
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Compelling as historical thriller, character study
- By Mr. Pointy on 08-25-15
By: David E. Hoffman
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Russians Among Us
- Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present.
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Should be required reading for every citizen
- By Amazon Customer on 02-27-20
By: Gordon Corera
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Red Roulette
- An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
- By: Desmond Shum
- Narrated by: Tim Chiou
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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As Desmond Shum was growing up impoverished in China, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity he earned an American college degree and returned to his native country to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly intelligent and equally ambitious Whitney Duan who was determined to make her mark within China’s male-dominated society. Whitney and Desmond formed an effective team and, aided by relationships they formed with top members of China’s Communist Party, the so-called red aristocracy.
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Desmond Shum is not a rube! He knows about wine, ok?
- By Peter L Hansen on 10-06-21
By: Desmond Shum
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The FBI Way
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- By: Frank Figliuzzi
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- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Frank Figliuzzi was the "Keeper of the Code," appointed the FBI’s Chief Inspector by then-Director Robert Mueller. Charged with overseeing sensitive internal inquiries, shooting reviews, and performance audits, he ensured each employee met the Bureau's exacting standards of performance, integrity, and conduct. Now, drawing on his distinguished career, Figliuzzi reveals how the Bureau achieves its extraordinary standard of excellence—from the training of new recruits in "The FBI Way" to the Bureau's rigorous maintenance of its standards up and down the organization.
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Absolutely brilliant! A MUST listen
- By Deb on 01-17-21
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In Hoffa's Shadow
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- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Great story, not the best reader
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By: Jack Goldsmith
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Russians Among Us
- Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
- By: Gordon Corera
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- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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Should be required reading for every citizen
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Kleptopia
- How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
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- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis weaves together stories that reveal a terrifying global web of corruption. Glimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years. In Kleptopia, Burgis connects the dots. He follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House, the trail shows something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting. And the human cost will be great.
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Lazy Journalism in long narrative form
- By Jeremy on 02-14-21
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