In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union and the West During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose.
Novels, essays, and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism.
They could also lead to blacklisti.