Macintyre has produced a timely and insightful page-turner. In a feat of real authorial dexterity, Macintyre accurately portrays the long-game banality of spycraft-the lead time and persistence in planning-with such clarity and propulsive verve that the book often feels like a thriller. No wonder le Carré liked it Daily Express One of the last chapters is as tense as any thriller. But, blow by blow, trick by trick, it is all in Macintyre's book Fredrick Forsyth He decided to go to the West in the summer of 1985 amidst a flurry of political instability and an uncertain future in the Kremlin. If any spy writer were to put it in a novel, it would not be believed. The Spy and the Traitor, by Ben Macintyre, published in 2018, is the definitive, highly informative, non-fictional account of the defection of a senior-level Soviet spy. An incredible true life spy story.Every word ramps up the tension as you're drawn deeper into the danger Mail on Sunday
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