| International Standard Book Number |
9780771010491
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| International Standard Book Number |
0771010494
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
327.1247 CaOONL
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| Personal Name |
Macintyre, Ben, 1963- author
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| Title Statement |
Redwood : the untold story of the Cold War's most extraordinary spy / Ben Macintyre.
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| Imprint |
Toronto : Signal, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
pages cm
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor (“John le Carre´’s nonfiction counterpart”—The New York Times) comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: the story of a Russian double agent with a terrible secret—and the key to stopping a nuclear apocalypse. The year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. The Soviets are planning to overthrow the Ayatollah’s fledgling Islamist regime. If they do so, one response contemplated in the secret chambers of American power—unknown to the public—would be to strike with nuclear weapons. Redwood is the story of how, at the height of the Cold War, one mysterious double agent, whose intelligence reached the highest levels of American and British governments, cracked open the KGB, revealed the Kremlin’s secret plot, and prevented Armageddon. “Redwood” was the MI6 codename for this unsung, hitherto-unknown hero of the Cold War, a highly trained, six-foot-four Russian intelligence officer who chose to expose the KGB’s deepest secrets, compelled to swap sides by a shaming secret of his own. Facing exposure, with both the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and his own KGB colleagues closing in, he demanded that MI6 try to smuggle him out of Iran in a high-stakes escape plan. This is the gripping tale of one man’s courage, and its extraordinary unintended consequences that still shape our world today. It’s about a moving friendship between spies on opposite sides of the global conflict; about marriage, loyalty, betrayal and sexual dysfunction; and about how decisions made in secret can have huge, long-term ramifications. Drawing on never-before-seen material from archives in multiple countries, and interviews with the participants including officers from MI6 and MI5, the KGB and CIA, Redwood plunges readers back into the shadowy world of The Spy and the Traitor. It lifts the lid on an unknown and highly significant Cold War victory, on the machinations of history’s Great Game, and on how espionage really works. Without Redwood, our world would be very different—and might not exist at all."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Additional Physical Form Available |
Issued also in electronic format.
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| Subject |
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoi? bezopasnosti.
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| Subject |
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoi? bezopasnosti fast
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| Subject-Chronological Term |
1979 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spies
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spies Soviet Union Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Cold War.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Espionage, Soviet
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Espionage, Soviet Iran.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Espions URSS Biographies.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Espionnage sovie´tique Iran.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Guerre froide.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Soviet Union fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Iran fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Iran Histoire 1979 (Re´volution)
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Iran History Revolution, 1979.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
History
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