February 14, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. – The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
A thrilling true story of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian spy whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. The son of two KGB agents, savvy and sophisticated, Oleg grew to see his nation’s Communism as both criminal and philistine. He became the Soviet Union’s top spy in London, but starting in 1973, he was secretly working for MI6. When London revealed his name to America, a three-way gamesmanship between America, Britain and Russia ensued, culminating in Oleg’s nail biting escape from Moscow in 1985. This novel brings readers deep into a world of treachery and betray where the lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man’s hatred of Communism has the power to change the future of nations.
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