About The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
In The Spy and the Traitor, Ben Macintyre tells the astonishing story of Oleg Gordievsky, the man who saved Western intelligence from disaster during the Cold War.
A KGB colonel turned MI6 agent, Gordievsky was one of the most valuable spies in history, and his activities exposed Soviet treachery on an unprecedented scale. Drawing on previously unseen papers from British and Russian archives, as well as interviews with key players including Gordievsky himself, Macintyre has created a gripping narrative of espionage and betrayal that brings to life the shadowy world of international intrigue.
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