![]() ![]() So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. 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 Spy and the Traitor is a fast-paced and fascinating biography of Russian-spy-turned-British-asset Oleg Gordievsky It’s nonfiction, but it reads like the best of thrillers The toll spying takes on Gordievsky’s personal life is enthralling, and the details of how deep the effects of one KGB agent’s deception can go are, in. ‘THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ’ JOHN LE CARR ÉĪn exciting Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain’s greatest historians and the ultimate gift for anyone who loves a good spy thriller! *The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *A BBC Between the Covers book club pick* *Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize* ![]()
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