Jim Popkin will discuss his new book, Code Name Blue Wren, about convicted Cuban spy Ana Montes, who used to live on Macomb Street in Cleveland Park. Popkin is an author and investigative journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, WIRED, and on NPR. He ran the NBC News Investigative Unit, where he was a Senior Producer and on-air correspondent. He reported for NBC News for 14 years for the TODAY Show, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, and CNBC. Popkin won four national Emmy Awards for outstanding journalism, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, the George Polk Award, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. He received a BA from Northwestern University and a Master’s from Yale Law School. 

Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy – and the Sister She Betrayed was released this past January,  just three days before Montes was freed from prison after more than two decades behind bars.

Code Name Blue Wren will be available for sale in the library lobby, and Jim Popkin will be on hand to sign books.