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REVIEWS: The Spy and the Traitor
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The Guardian
The Washington Post
GoodReads
Book Companion
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The celebrated author of
Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy
story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky,
the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold
War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the
infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky.
The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet
institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see
his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took
his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and
eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from
1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. Gordievsky helped the
West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and
helping to foil countless intelligence plots. Unfolding the
delicious three-way gamesmanship between America, Britain, and
the Soviet Union, and culminating in the gripping cinematic
beat-by-beat of Gordievsky's nail-biting escape from Moscow in
1985, Ben Macintyre's latest may be his best yet. “The best true
spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ.
Characters: 210. Amazon rating: 5 stars. Genre: Non-Fiction/Thriller.
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