The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage story of the Cold War.
MACINTYRE, Ben.
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage story of the Cold War.
First Edition of The Spy and the Traitor; Signed by Ben Macintyre
United Kingdom: Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, 2018.
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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.
