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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (English Edition)

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*The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize**Shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018*'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARRÉ A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historiansOn a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket.The man was a spy for MI6. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of espionage. In The Spy and the Traitor Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of betrayal, duplicity and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever.'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else. The Spy and the Traitor may well be his best book yet' Evening Standard'A dazzling non-fiction thriller and an intimate portrait of high-stakes espionage' Guardian 'A real-life thriller, as tense as John le Carré's novels, or even Ian Fleming's' Economist

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Lorsque Margaret Thatcher, première ministre du Royaume-Uni, est sur le point de rencontrer Michaël Gorbatchev en 1984 (il est sur le point de diriger l'URSS), elle est "briefée" par une taupe soviétique qui contribue à ce qu'un contact fructueux se noue : les implications seront grandes, tout comme à d'autres reprises le travail dans l'ombre de cet homme, qui agit par idéal, contribuera à dévoiler les secrets de "L'empire du mal" (selon les termes du président Reagan)."The Spy and the Traitor" est bien documenté et accessible. Toutefois je l'ai trouvé un peu trop formel, trop sobre. Je l'ai également trouvé un peu laborieux dans sa première moitié : l'exposition des personnages principaux, le récit des premières rencontres entre la taupe soviétique et le MI6, etc. m'ont semblé bien longuets et répétitifs. J'ai davantage apprécié la seconde partie du récit, quand l'étau se resserre sur notre héros.

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