The Spy and the Traitor

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Shortlisted for the 2018 Ballie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction Heather’s Pick
One of The Economist’s Best Books of the Year
One of Indigo’s Top 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2018

The celebrated author of A Spy Among Friends and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Cold War-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the collapse of the Soviet Union.

If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took… Keep Reading