Spy and the traitor: the greatest espionage story of the Cold War. Ben Macintyre. 2018.

In 1985 Colonel Oleg Gordievsky - chief of the KGB’s London station - was summoned to Moscow. He arrived, fearing for his life. For Gordievsky was a secret British spy and he suspected his Russian masters were on to him - and he was right.

The Spy and the Traitor details Gordievsky’s exceptional espionage, the trail of treachery that led to him being confronted, drugged and interrogated in Moscow and, most incredibly of all, the astonishing MI6 operation to get him out alive. Ben Macintyre reveals how Gordievsky’s extraordinary tale of duplicity and daring changed the course of the Cold War for ever.