The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold WarCrown, 18. sep. 2018 - 384 síđur NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction 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. For nearly a decade, as the Cold War reached its twilight, Gordievsky helped the West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and helping to foil countless intelligence plots, as the Soviet leadership grew increasingly paranoid at the United States's nuclear first-strike capabilities and brought the world closer to the brink of war. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky's name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain's obviously top-level source. Their obsession ultimately doomed Gordievsky: the CIA officer assigned to identify him was none other than Aldrich Ames, the man who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets. 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. Like the greatest novels of John le Carré, it brings readers deep into a world of treachery and betrayal, where the lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man's hatred of communism had the power to change the future of nations. |
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... looks were bluntly handsome , with hair swept back from his forehead and open , rather soft features . In repose , his expression seemed stern , but when his eyes flashed with dark humor , his face lit up . In company he was often ...
... looks were bluntly handsome , with hair swept back from his forehead and open , rather soft features . In repose , his expression seemed stern , but when his eyes flashed with dark humor , his face lit up . In company he was often ...
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... looks , Standa was a magnet to women . The two students became firm friends , running together , chasing girls , and eating in a Czech restaurant off Gorky Park . An equally important influence was his idolized older brother , Vasili ...
... looks , Standa was a magnet to women . The two students became firm friends , running together , chasing girls , and eating in a Czech restaurant off Gorky Park . An equally important influence was his idolized older brother , Vasili ...
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... look closely (and few Russians did), the contrast between the myth and reality of the KGB was self- evident. The Center was a spotlessly clean, brightly lit, amoral bureaucracy, a place at once ruthless, prissy, and puritanical, where ...
... look closely (and few Russians did), the contrast between the myth and reality of the KGB was self- evident. The Center was a spotlessly clean, brightly lit, amoral bureaucracy, a place at once ruthless, prissy, and puritanical, where ...
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... observed after he was recruited into the KGB in 1933: “I did not hesitate. One does not look twice at an offer of enrollment in an elite force.” Chapter 2 UNCLE GORMSSON 01 leg and Yelena Gordievsky landed. The. KGB. { 23 }
... observed after he was recruited into the KGB in 1933: “I did not hesitate. One does not look twice at an offer of enrollment in an elite force.” Chapter 2 UNCLE GORMSSON 01 leg and Yelena Gordievsky landed. The. KGB. { 23 }
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... look back on the vast, sterile concentration camp of the Soviet Union as a form of hell.” He took up badminton and found that he loved the game, particularly relishing the game's deceptive element. “The shuttle- cock, slowing down in ...
... look back on the vast, sterile concentration camp of the Soviet Union as a form of hell.” He took up badminton and found that he loved the game, particularly relishing the game's deceptive element. “The shuttle- cock, slowing down in ...
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SUNBEAM | 41 |
Green Ink and Microfilm | 60 |
A Plastic Bag and a Mars Bar | 84 |
Agent BOOT | 106 |
The Safe House | 123 |
Operation RYAN | 142 |
Cat and Mouse | 223 |
The Dry Cleaner | 246 |
The Runner | 270 |
Finlandia | 293 |
passport for pimlico | 312 |
afterword | 331 |
code names and aliases | 337 |
selected bibliography | 347 |
CONTENTS | 161 |
PART I | 163 |
Mr Collins and Mrs Thatcher | 175 |
index | 353 |
an excerpt from AGENT SONYA | 367 |
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