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

Brand new product\nFree UK standard delivery 2-3 days from despatch\nTracked secure courier\nPlease check delivery times at top of listing\nBookCurl is a family bookseller - thank you for your business\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u2022 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.\n\n\u201CThe best true spy story I have ever read.\u201D\u2014JOHN LE CARR\u00C9\n\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist \u2022 Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction\n\n 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 eventuaa