American Sons: The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman

Author Robert Lindsey calls AMERICAN SONS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN "a beautifully written thriller, an endearing love story" and "a compelling narrative of survival and redemption."

Written by convicted spy Christopher Boyce, his wife Cait Boyce and author Vince Font, the book tells the true story of three people who overcame insurmountable odds. It offers a deeply personal, intimate look at the struggle for survival, the pain of regret, and the triumph of the human spirit over adversity.

In 1977, Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee were convicted of selling U.S. intelligence information to the Soviet Union. Boyce was sentenced to 40 years. Lee received a life sentence. The story of their crime, as told in the book and movie THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN, was only the beginning.

Locked away for decades in some of the most brutal prisons in the federal justice system, Boyce and Lee survived numerous murder attempts and spent years of their lives in solitary confinement until a young, idealistic paralegal named Cait Mills put them on the path to becoming free men. Diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, Mills’ stoic determination to conquer her illness and continue her work was the catalyst that would ultimately transform all three of their lives.

AMERICAN SONS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN takes the reader on a twenty-five-year odyssey through the trials and tribulations of three people whose refusal to give up helped them survive the impossible.

NOTE: This title was previously published as THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN: AMERICAN SONS. The second edition includes a new cover design and updated title.