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Originally Posted by kermitology
I'm a little over half way through Ben Macintyre's The Spy and the Traitor - the true story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB political officer who spied for MI6 for decades and was exfiltrated from the USSR when his identity was revealed to Directorate K.
It is.. astoundingly good. Like, from the very start I've been so engaged.
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Listened to the audiobook during covid. It was excellent. Pretty interesting how Gordievsky wasn’t some scumbag spy turned by women, money, or blackmail. He was a true believer who lost his faith when he saw how great life was in Denmark.
I’ve read a couple of Macintyre’s other books since, and while they’re good, they don’t match the Spy and the Traitor.