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

Ben Macintyre

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#2631 of 3,809 books · #867 in History

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2018).

The Spy and the Traitor won the No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller accolade. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. The man was a spy. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying. Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780241186671
Genre
History
Topics
Cold War espionageKGB double agentSoviet-British intelligence operations

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