
1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. The best true spy story I have ever read.

The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Kindle Edition) Published September 20th 2018 by Penguin. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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. 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. Item Type : English Books (Paperback) Publication Date : 2019/05. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. Link to an enlarged image of The Spy and the Traitor : The Greatest Espionage Story. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen.


*The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize* 'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARRE A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword 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.
