Although Ernest Hemingway worked as a war correspondent and earned a Bronze Star for his reconnaissance work, his involvement in espionage is more complex than previously suspected, posits Nicholas Reynolds, who uncovered a wealth of new information on the Nobel Laureate in CIA archives. Along with accounts of Hemingway's valiant efforts hunting Nazis subs in World War II, here too are revelations of his less commendable exploits, notably his recruitment by the Soviet NKVD and his support for Fidel Castro. Hemingway's life and works were inseparable, and Reynolds offers penetrating assessments of how these remarkable experiences shaped such books as For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, but also contributed to Hemingway's mental decline in his later years.