Spy and the traitor - Ben Macintyre

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• *The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize* 'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARRE A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians now with a new afterword 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.
• In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen.
• The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket.
• The man was a spy.
• 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.
• No spy had done more to damage the KGB.
• The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia.
• So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying.
• Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever...