Ben Macintyre's 2018 account of Oleg Gordievsky — the KGB colonel who became Britain's most valuable Cold War spy — a narrative of one man's double life and the operation that extracted him from the Soviet Union.
Creates the most gripping true spy narrative of the Cold War — Gordievsky's story provides a human-scale account of Cold War intelligence that makes abstract geopolitics viscerally real.
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