Perfect Spy
Chapter One
Hoa Binh: Spy and Friend
For Pham Xuan An—who taught me about Vietnam and the true meaning of friendship. To you, the bravest man I have ever met, I owe a debt that can never be repaid. Hoa Binh.
—Robert Sam Anson, inscription inside his book
War News: A Young Reporter in Indochina
August 1970
The ninety-minute flight from Singapore to Saigon must have seemed like an eternity for young Diane Anson. The previous day she had received official notification that her husband, Time magazine correspondent Robert Sam Anson, was missing somewhere in Cambodia. The official "date of loss" was August 3, 1970."1 No other information was forthcoming. Bob could already be dead and his body never to be recovered, as was the status for Time's freelance photo journalist Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, working on assignment for CBS, when both disappeared in early April just outside of Phnom Penh.2
Cambodia was becoming known as the graveyard of journalists. In Septemb ... read full excerpt from: Perfect Spy ebook
