Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962, in the most legendary prisoner exchange between East and West? 'Bridge of Spies' vividly traces the journeys of these men, whose fate defines the complex conflicts that embodied th
Best of enemies: the last great spy story of the Cold War
✍ Scribed by Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti;Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.;United States. Central Intelligence Agency;United States. Central Intelligence Agency.;Dezenhall, Eric;Platt, Jack;Russo, Gus;Vasilenko, Gennady
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing; Twelve
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Russia (Federation), Soviet Union., United States.
- ISBN
- 1538761327
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✦ Synopsis
**The thrilling story of two Cold War spies -- CIA agent Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- and their improbable friendship at a time when they should have been anything but. **
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In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's counterintelligence office and Gennady out of the Soviet Embassy. Both men, already notorious iconoclasts within their respective agencies, were assigned to seduce the other into betraying his country in the urgent final days of the Cold War, but instead the men ended up becoming the best of friends-blood brothers. Theirs is a friendship that never should have happened, and their story is chock full of treachery, darkly comic misunderstandings, bureaucratic inanity, the Russian Mafia, and landmark intelligence breakthroughs of the past half century.
In BEST OF ENEMIES, two espionage cowboys reveal how they...
✦ Subjects
Russia (Federation)
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