after jackie heard from philip myers, his story about the cold war to be, she openly wondered whetherterrorists nuke and his wife was not an accident at all, but even possibly a revenge killing. myers was willing -- was surprised he was was willing to consider his or postal even though it had come in over the transom. in other words come he didn't have a literary agent. he had no special introduction to jackie and yet it was a story that interested her and it was the story she wanted to help him when it's. when she later had talked with myers and learn some of the difficulties that might be in the road from the russian and american secret service is about his telling the story, jackie laughed and said, you have to be careful where you're going to end up squished at the bottom of a trashcan. i think that says some thing about her courage as an editor or willingness to follow a good story when she found one. okay, that is jackie with bill moyers and her longtime can in murray's templeman. and perhaps the most interesting collection of her books is on a subject she herself knew well, tha

she was also ready to commission a book for a man she'd never met before, philip myers, who came to her with a proposal to write a book about a group of russian cold war era spies who organize to get united states warning of any impending russian nuclear attack. and what's more surprising still is that myers identified a spy, a man who jackie had known personally, a curator of historical arms and armor at the armitage in st. petersburg, but and affected and came, it was later a curator at the metropolitan museum in new york. and that's how jackie knew him. she had been introduced to him and they work together on her book on russian costume. this photo given to me by his daughter, well, i think it came from philip myers, but also by his daughter to him, he has a weapon in his hands. he and his wife died in an automobile accident in france in the early 1990s. and after jackie heard from philip myers, historic about the cold war activity, she openly wondered whether or not he and his wife's accident was not an accident at all, but possibly even a revenge killing. myers was willing -- was s