The Spy and The Traitor

The true story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who became one of Britain's most valuable double agents during the Cold War, and Aldrich Ames, the CIA officer who betrayed him. Published in 2018, Ben Macintyre's account traces Gordievsky's decade of espionage, his narrow escape from Moscow, and the intelligence he provided that shaped Western strategy. The book reads as a real-life spy thriller while documenting one of the most consequential intelligence operations of the twentieth century.