pt. 1. Burden of innocence: the New Deal years --
ch. 1. Communist romantics, 1: the reluctant Laurence Duggan --
ch. 2. Creating the Soviet networks: Hiss, Chambers, and early recruits --
ch. 3. Love and loyalties, 1: the case of Martha Dodd --
ch. 4. Communist romantics, 2: the exuberant Michael Straight --
ch. 5. Love and loyalties, 2: Elizabeth Bentley and Jacob Golos --
ch. 6. Double agent/Hollywood hustler: the case of Boris Morros --
ch. 7. "Crook": a Soviet agent in Congress --
pt. 2. Third front: Soviet espionage in the Second World War --
ch. 8. Harvest time, 1: the silvermaster network in wartime Washington --
ch. 9. Atomic espionage: from Fuchs to the Rosenbergs --
ch. 10. Harvest time, 2: The Perlo group --
ch. 11. OSS and NKGB: penetration agents --
ch. 12. Harvest time, 3: Hiss, Glasser, and warning signs --
pt. 3. Discovery: Cold War confrontation --
ch. 13. Flight from exposure, 1: the Washington sources --
ch. 14. Flight from exposure, 2 : the atom spies.