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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... seemed to study his papers for an inordinate length of time before waving him through. Where was the official who was supposed to be meeting him, a minimal courtesy for a KGB colonel arriving back from overseas? The airport was always ...
... seemed to study his papers for an inordinate length of time before waving him through. Where was the official who was supposed to be meeting him, a minimal courtesy for a KGB colonel arriving back from overseas? The airport was always ...
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... seemed stern , but when his eyes flashed with dark humor , his face lit up . In company he was often convivial and comradely , but there was something hard and hidden inside . He was not lonely , or a loner , but he was comfortable in ...
... seemed stern , but when his eyes flashed with dark humor , his face lit up . In company he was often convivial and comradely , but there was something hard and hidden inside . He was not lonely , or a loner , but he was comfortable in ...
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... seemed unfazed by the sudden arrival of a young man holding a bunch of flowers. Over a cup of tea, she made it clear that she was prepared to continue cooperating with the KGB. Gordievsky eagerly wrote up his first KGB report. Only ...
... seemed unfazed by the sudden arrival of a young man holding a bunch of flowers. Over a cup of tea, she made it clear that she was prepared to continue cooperating with the KGB. Gordievsky eagerly wrote up his first KGB report. Only ...
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... seemed “a spiritual desert” by comparison, where only approved composers could be heard, and “class hostile” church music, such as Bach's, was deemed decadent and bourgeois, and banned. Gordievsky was profoundly affected by the few ...
... seemed “a spiritual desert” by comparison, where only approved composers could be heard, and “class hostile” church music, such as Bach's, was deemed decadent and bourgeois, and banned. Gordievsky was profoundly affected by the few ...
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... KGB logic, hav- ing more than one family member abroad, and particularly having two in the same country, might be an inducement to defect. Gordievsky was bored and frustrated. A job that had seemed. the. spy. and. the. traitor. { 22 }
... KGB logic, hav- ing more than one family member abroad, and particularly having two in the same country, might be an inducement to defect. Gordievsky was bored and frustrated. A job that had seemed. the. spy. and. the. traitor. { 22 }
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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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