[T'wit]

The publisher tells me that the book is out of print, but that it sold well for such work (10,000+). No reissue is under consideration, but copies can be found in used book outlets.

He wonders, btw, how you picked the name "Fedora"? That is, if it's not confidential. Some such character showed up in Soviet espionage. I don't remember where, but it might have surfaced in Venona.

[Fedora]

He wonders, btw, how you picked the name "Fedora"? That is, if it's not confidential. Some such character showed up in Soviet espionage. I don't remember where, but it might have surfaced in Venona.

Your publisher friend is correct :) I was having trouble picking a good screen name when I signed up for FR, so I tried to think of something appropos to the subject, and I remembered Fedora:

http://www.markriebling.com/golitsyn.html

The first of the FBI's two new sources was forty-year-old Scotch-loving Aleksei Isidorovich Kulak, nicknamed "Fatso" by his Bureau handlers and officially code-named Fedora. . .