MACINTYRE, Ben.
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage story of the Cold War.
United Kingdom: Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books , 2018.
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First Edition of The Spy and the Traitor; Signed by Ben Macintyre
First edition of this true spy thriller. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with colorful photographs. Boldly signed by the author on title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Justine Stoddart.
Ben Macintyre’s The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War reconstructs the career of Oleg Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer who became a key British intelligence source, and uses his case to illuminate the operational realities and moral ambiguities of late–Cold War espionage. Combining archival research with interviews and narrative-driven historiography, Macintyre traces Gordievsky’s gradual disillusionment with Soviet power, his management as an agent by MI6, and the escalating risks of counterintelligence detection that culminate in a dramatic exfiltration from the USSR.
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage story of the Cold War.
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