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Drabkin, Ronald, author.

Beverly Hills spy : the double-agent war hero who helped Japan attack Pearl Harbor / Ronald Drabkin.

First edition.

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]

x, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland: a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars, who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"-- Provided by publisher.

Rutland, Frederick, 1887-1949.

Espionage, Japanese -- United States -- History.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Japan.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.

Spies -- United States -- Biography.

British -- Japan -- Biography.

British -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Biography.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.

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Pearl Harbor -- The Battle of Jutland -- Spurned by the RAF -- Dead US Marines -- The world's first aircraft carrier -- Geisha party -- The poker game -- The attempted assassination of Charlie Chaplin -- The 1932 Summer Olympics -- The FBI and the dead spy -- The attaché and the sleeper -- Hollywood -- The private club -- Spy work is not a blank check -- In plain sight -- The coronation of King George VI -- The secrets of the P-38 -- The spy as a good father -- Many strange clues -- Counterspies -- Double agent -- Tachibana -- The blackmail of Charlie Chaplin -- The FBI finally wakes Up -- Beating the suspect -- Political fallout -- Meetings in Washington -- Looking for spies in all the wrong places -- Pearl Harbor, redux.

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