What a great book! This is a pop history book detailing how a KGB spy was flipped to be a double agent for the British during the Cold War from the 1960s-1980s, and how he was eventually sniffed out by the Soviets and yet still managed to make it out of Russia in the most over the top, unbelievable spy shit way imaginable. Oleg Gordievsky's work as a spy almost went terribly so many times, and yet he also managed to pass along information to the British (and, through intelligence sharing, the Americans) that was quite important. It's a real reminder that everything that happens in world history etc. depends so much on luck and on random circumstance, for better and for worse, always. A great time and I now have like ten other books by this author on my tbr list.
Grade: A
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