The release date for the English version of 'The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War' by
Ben Macintyre is Sep 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A middle-aged guy with a plastic carrier bag stood on the sidewalk of a bustling road in the centre of Moscow on a sunny July evening in 1985. He seemed to be just another Soviet citizen with his grey suit and tie. Just the bag itself, with the red emblem of the British grocery chain Safeway, was quite noticeable.
The individual worked as an MI6 spy. As a top KGB man, he had been providing his British spymasters with invaluable information from the Soviet intelligence apparatus for almost ten years. There was no spy who had hurt the KGB more. The Safeway bag served as a signal for him to begin smuggling himself out of Soviet Russia.
Thus began one of the audacious and remarkable escapades in the annals of espionage. Ben Macintyre tells the story of espionage, treachery, and unadulterated bravery that permanently altered the trajectory of the Cold War.