Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and interviews with first-hand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting and a riveting true story from the final years of the Cold War. I devoured every word, including the footnotes. It is also an evocative portrait of everyday life in the crumbling Soviet Union and a meticulously researched guide to CIA sources and methods.

At enormous risk Tolkachev and his handlers conducted clandestine meetings across Moscow, using spy cameras, props, and private codes to elude the KGB in its own backyard - until a shocking betrayal put them all at risk. The Billion Dollar Spy is an espionage thriller worthy of John Le Carré but much more than that. The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal. In the years that followed, that stranger, Adolf Tolkachev, became one of the West's most valuable spies. Hoffman is a contributing editor at The Washington Post and a. While the chief of the CIA's Moscow station fills his gas tank, a stranger drops a note into the car. invasion of the Persian Gulf in 1991, all of which has had tremendous repercussions and. during the 1980's, which culminated in the U.S. Hoffman, published in 2015 is a well-documented, non-fictional account of CIA and KGB intelligence-gathering activities and collaboration in Moscow and Washington D.C. WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times 'A gripping story of courage, professionalism, and betrayal in the secret world.' Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow, 1988-1992 'One of the best spy stories to come out of the Cold War and all the more riveting for being true.' Washington Post January, 1977. The Billion Dollar Spy, by author David E.

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