Shaun Walker

The Illegals

Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West

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Produktbeschreibung

"A century ago, the new Bolshevik government began sending Soviet citizens abroad as deep-cover spies, training them to pose as foreign aristocrats, merchants, and students. Over time, this became the most ambitious espionage program in human history. Many intelligence agencies use undercover operatives, but the KGB was the only one to go to such lengths, spending years training its spies to pass for foreigners, then sending them on missions that could last for decades--[and were rarely successful]. These spies were known as the illegals. ... Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with illegals and their descendants, as well as archival research in more than a dozen countries, Shaun Walker brings the illegals to life in a page-turning tour-de-force that takes us into the heart of the KGB's most secretive program"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 637g
• ISBN-13: 9780593319680
• ISBN-10: 0593319680
• Artikelnr.: 71298907

Autorenporträt

SHAUN WALKER is an international correspondent for The Guardian. He reported from Moscow for more than a decade and is the author of The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past. He currently divides his time between Warsaw, Kyiv, and London.

Rezensionen

[A] gripping account of the agents who lived in the West under the deepest of covers ... Walker makes the sparkling most of an outlandish cast of characters Sunday Times