![]() ![]() ![]() In The Spy and the Traitor Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of betrayal, duplicity and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of espionage. It was short-listed that year for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (previously known as the Samuel Johnson Prize). 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 is a 2018 nonfiction book by Ben Macintyre. 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. ![]() The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. 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. ![]() 'The best true spy story I have ever read' - John le CarreĪ thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Author Ben Macintyre Edition illustrated Publisher Crown, 2018 ISBN 1101904208, 9781101904206 Length 384 pages Subjects. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2018 ![]()
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