*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.
Ben MacIntyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever....
So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying.
The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia.
No spy had done more to damage the KGB.
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.
The man was a spy.
The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket.
In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. *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
