Harvard Club of Georgia

After-party with Author: Kristie Macrakis, AM'83,PHD'89

Following the Reading/Signing of Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies: The Story of Invisible Ink at Carter Center

Alumni and Club member Kristie Macrakis is having a Book Reading/Signing at the Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater in April. Please join the Club immediately following at Manuel's Tavern for a celebration of her latest work Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies: The Story of Invisible Ink.

About the Aurthor:
Kristie Macrakis received her PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University. She is an internationally recognized historian of espionage and the author of many books including Surviving the Swastika and Seduced by Secrets. She is professor of history, technology and society at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. kristiemacrakis.com

Kristie spoke to our group last year at the popular "The Reality of Bond" event following the James Bond movie screening of "Skyfall".

About the Book:
Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies: The Story of Invisible Ink is the first history of invisible ink and secret communications revealed through thrilling stories about scoundrels and heroes and their ingenious methods for concealing messages. Kristie Macrakis combines a storyteller’s sense of drama with a historian’s respect for evidence in this page‑turning history of intrigue and espionage, love and war, magic and secrecy. It is suitable for anyone interested in revealed secrets and in learning more about the art of secret messaging.

For the first time, Macrakis also reveals spy agencies’ most closely guarded communication secrets using newly declassified materials.  In addition, the book includes fun kitchen chemistry recipes the reader can try out at home.

“Kristie Macrakis here reveals long-hidden secrets of invisible ink, microdots, and other ways spies, lovers, generals, businessmen, and ordinary folk have concealed messages they didn't want others to read.  No one else has ever done this so well and so fully.  A tour de force!"
—David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers

Time: Imediately following the Book Reading/Signing at the Carter Center
(click here for more information on that event)

Where: Manuel's Tavern | 602 N Highland Ave NE | Atlanta GA 30307

Cost: Each person responsible for his/her own check