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RedwoodThe Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy

Ben Macintyre

4.5/ 5 · Outstanding

Redwood by Ben Macintyre is a Cold War spy history about KGB Major Vladimir Kuzichkin, who turns to MI6 in 1981 from his post in revolutionary Tehran. It's narrative nonfiction that reads like a thriller, and it follows the young British officer charged with getting him out alive.

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