A review by harry_reads4fun
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

5.0

I've liked all of Ben Macintyre's true spy sagas so far (A Spy Among Friends and Operation Mincement), but this one was the best; Macintyre's skill at converting historic events, documents, interviews and research into thrilling action and hair-pulling suspense reaches a nadir with the story of how Oleg Gordievsky becomes a double-agent and, although his ruse is finally uncovered, we are left wondering until the end if he can escape the gulag.