Ричард Роуэн
Richard Wilmer Rowan (1894-1964) has been described as the foremost American non-fiction writer on the history of espionage. He was educated at Brown and Columbia and served in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. He maintained a large international network of sources which provided him with information on intelligence activities.
Rowan’s publications include:
Sainte Séductre: An Inner View of the Boche At Bay, 1917
Spy and Counter-Spy, 1928
Spies and the Next War, 1934
Modern Spies Tell Their Stories, 1934
The Story of Secret Service, 1937
Secret Agents Against America, 1939
Terror In Our Time, 1941
Spy Secrets, 1946
Cuba: The Big Red Lie, 1963
Secret Service: Thirty-Three Centuries of Espionage, 1967 (new and revised version of The Story of Secret Service, 1937)