Spy and the Traitor The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Name: Spy and the Traitor The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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ISBN: 9781101904213

ISBN-10: 1101904216

ISBN-13: 9781101904213

Edition: 2018

Authors: Ben Macintyre

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARRï¿½ 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…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2018
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/6/2019
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.02" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Ben Macintyre is writer-at-large and associate editor of the Times of London. He is the author of several books including Agent Zigzag, The Man Who Would Be King, The Englishman's Daughter, The Napoleon of Crime, Forgotten Fatherland, and A Spy among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal.