En vanvittig spennende spionthriller fra virkeligheten! Den sovjetiske KGB-spionen Oleg Gordijevskij jobbet i det skjulte for britiske MI6. Som en av den kalde krigens viktigste dobbeltagenter lekket han informasjon som førte til arrestasjonen av de norske spionene Gunvor Galtung Haavik og Arne Treholt. Livet hans er som en spionroman: oppvokst i en KGB-familie var spionasje hans naturlige karrierevalg. Som dyktig KGB-mann på overflaten ble han KGBs fremste mann i London, samtidig som han lekket til britene i det skjulte. Et dobbeltspill varer sjelden evig, og snart brant det under føttene hans. Kunne han klare å hoppe av til Vesten før arrestasjon og en sikker død ventet ham? "Den kalde krigen våkner til nytt liv i denne hybriden av dokumentarbok og spionthriller... Et strålende innblikk i en epoke som virker både kjent og besynderlig, både nostalgisk og skrekkinngytende. "NRK

Forfatteren av bestselgeren Spion og forræder er tilbake med en ny fascinerende spionthriller fra virkeligheten Denne gangen har Ben Macintyre plassert en kvinnelig agent i sentrum. Fortellingen om Ursula Kuczynski, med kodenavn Sonya, er som en europeisk historie i miniatyr. Som ung jødisk kvinne vokser hun opp i et stadig mer fiendtlig Tyskland. Hun blir overbevist kommunist og lar seg verve som spion for russerne. Under annen verdenskrig lever hun et tilsynelatende anonymt husmorliv i England. Men i hagen bak huset har hun hemmelig radiokontakt med Sovjetunionen, der hun avslører viktig informasjon om utviklingen av atombomben. I en mannsdominert bransje gjør Sonya en spektakulær karriere og blir forfremmet til oberst. Men MI5 er på sporet av mesterspionen, og snart brenner jorden under føttene hennes.

A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword. On 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. 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 spying. Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever...

Eddie Chapman er antagelig den merkeligste spion som har arbeidet for britisk etterretning. Han var en eventyrer, rastløs, spenningssøkende, intelligent og usedvanlig sjarmerende, men også yrkeskriminell, skapsprenger, bedrager og fengselsfugl. Han satt fengslet på Jersey da tyskerne okkuperte kanaløyene sommeren 1940, og tilbød seg å være spion for tyskerne for å slippe fengselstilværelsen. Samtidig kontaktet han britisk politi, og ble MI5s mann.

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, Sonya was heading for the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific secrets from a nuclear physicist. Secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the atomic bomb. Far from an obedient homemaker, Sonya Burton was a dedicated communist, a decorated colonel and a veteran spy who risked her life to keep the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race. In 'Agent Sonya', Ben Macintyre reveals the astonishing story behind the most important woman spy in history and the huge emotional cost that came with being a mother, a wife, and a secret agent at once.

Operation Mincemeat : hur en död man och en bisarr plan lurade nazisterna När en sardinfiskare en aprilmorgon 1943 fick syn på liket av en brittisk soldat som flöt i havet utanför Spaniens kust satte det igång en händelsekedja som skulle komma att förändra hela utgången av andra världskriget. Operation Mincemeat var den mest framgångsrika, och samtidigt den underligaste krigslist som någonsin försökts. Den duperade de nazistiska spioncheferna, fick tyska trupper att förflytta sig i ilfart i fel riktning och räddade tusentals liv; allt genom bruket av en spion som var unik i en avgörande bemärkelse: han var död.Ben Macintyre, författare till succéboken Agent ZigZag har använt sig av tidigare hemligstämplat material från MI5, brev, intervjuer och dagböcker för att för första gången berätta hela historien bakom Operation Mincemeat. "En fullständigt briljant, enastående bok" Ingalill Mosander, GoKväll

From the Number One bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, comes a new true story of Second World War deception

En vanvittig spennende spionthriller fra virkeligheten! Den sovjetiske KGB-spionen Oleg Gordijevskij jobbet i det skjulte for britiske MI6. Som en av den kalde krigens viktigste dobbeltagenter lekket han informasjon som førte til arrestasjonen av de norske spionene Gunvor Galtung Haavik og Arne Treholt. Livet hans er som en spionroman: oppvokst i en KGB-familie var spionasje hans naturlige karrierevalg. Som dyktig KGB-mann på overflaten ble han KGBs fremste mann i London, samtidig som han lekket til britene i det skjulte. Et dobbeltspill varer sjelden evig, og snart brant det under føttene hans. Kunne han klare å hoppe av til Vesten før arrestasjon og en sikker død ventet ham? "Den kalde krigen våkner til nytt liv i denne hybriden av dokumentarbok og spionthriller... Et strålende innblikk i en epoke som virker både kjent og besynderlig, både nostalgisk og skrekkinngytende. "NRK

Forfatteren av bestselgeren Spion og forræder er tilbake med en ny fascinerende spionthriller fra virkeligheten Denne gangen har Ben Macintyre plassert en kvinnelig agent i sentrum. Fortellingen om Ursula Kuczynski, med kodenavn Sonya, er som en europeisk historie i miniatyr. Som ung jødisk kvinne vokser hun opp i et stadig mer fiendtlig Tyskland. Hun blir overbevist kommunist og lar seg verve som spion for russerne. Under annen verdenskrig lever hun et tilsynelatende anonymt husmorliv i England. Men i hagen bak huset har hun hemmelig radiokontakt med Sovjetunionen, der hun avslører viktig informasjon om utviklingen av atombomben. I en mannsdominert bransje gjør Sonya en spektakulær karriere og blir forfremmet til oberst. Men MI5 er på sporet av mesterspionen, og snart brenner jorden under føttene hennes.

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all.

**Soon to be a major film, starring Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilson, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs** A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTION A SUNDAY TIMES NO 1. BESTSELLER 'Astonishing ... Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan' Daily Mail 'A rollicking read' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining' Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker ____________________ April, 1943: a sardine fisherman spots the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and sets off a train of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece. The brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer and a brilliant Jewish barrister, the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist, a gold-prospector, an inventor, a beautiful secret service secretary, a submarine captain, three novelists, an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing, and a dead Welsh tramp. This is the true story of the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill's spies: an outrageous lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement all the way to Hitler's desk.

The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle's Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' arch-rival. From the bestselling author of `Operation Mincemeat' and `Agent Zigzag'.Adam Worth was the greatest master criminal of Victorian times. Abjuring violence and setting himself up as a perfectly respectable gentleman, he became the ringleader for the largest criminal network in the world and the model for Conan Doyle's evil genius, Moriarty.At the height of his powers, he stole Gainsborough's famous portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, then the world's most valuable painting, from its London showroom. The duchess became his constant companion, the symbol and substance of his achievements. At the end of his career, he returned the painting, having gained nothing material from its theft.Worth's Sherlock Holmes was William Pinkerton, founder of America's first and greatest detective agency. Their parallel lives form the basis for this extraordinary book, which opens a window on the seedy Victorian underworld, wittily exposing society's hypocrisy and double standards in a storytelling tour de force.

A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians. Share this On 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. 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 spying. Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever . . .

En dramatisk fortelling fra fangeleiren nazistene ikke klarte å holde styr på! Les om tyskernes store flause: Fangeslottet Colditz og krigsfangene som nektet å forbli innesperret. Den globale sensasjonen Ben Macintyre, forfatter av Spion og forræder, er tilbake med en helt annerledes fortelling fra andre verdenskrig: I Fangeslottet Colditz blir de tyske fangemesterne rundlurt. Fluktforsøk, spionasje, galskap og kjærlighet: Pat Reid og hans medfangers påfunn er en uforglemmelig historie!

En dramatisk fortelling fra fangeleiren nazistene ikke klarte å holde styr på! Les om tyskernes store flause: Fangeslottet Colditz og krigsfangene som nektet å forbli innesperret. Den globale sensasjonen Ben Macintyre, forfatter av Spion og forræder, er tilbake med en helt annerledes fortelling fra andre verdenskrig: I Fangeslottet Colditz blir de tyske fangemesterne rundlurt. Fluktforsøk, spionasje, galskap og kjærlighet: Pat Reid og hans medfangers påfunn er en uforglemmelig historie!

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military accomplishment, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies into double agents, tricked the Nazis into believing that the Allied attacks would come in Calais and Norway rather than Normandy. It was the most sophisticated and successful deception operation ever carried out, ensuring Allied victory at the most pivotal point in the war. This epic event has never before been told from the perspective of the key individuals in the Double Cross system, until now. Together they made up one of the oddest and most brilliant military units ever assembled."

From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, to preventing nuclear war (or so she believed) by stealing the science of atomic weaponry from Britain to give to Moscow, Ursula Kuczynski Burton conducted some of the most dangerous espionage operations of the twentieth century. Born to a German Jewish family, as Ursula grew, so did the Nazis' power. A fanatical opponent of the fascism that ravaged her homeland, she was drawn to communism as a young woman, motivated by the promise of a fair and peaceful society. She eventually became a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent. In Agent Sonya, Britain's most acclaimed historian vividly reveals the fascinating tale of a life that would change the course of history. Classic Ben Macintyre - a gripping ride, based on meticulous research, that reads like a novel - this is the greatest spy story never told.

'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John Preston _____________________________ THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth. The astonishing inside story, revealed for the first time in this new book by bestselling historian Ben Macintyre, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of snobbery, class conflict, homosexuality, bullying, espionage, boredom, insanity and farce. With access to an astonishing range of material, Macintyre reveals a remarkable cast of characters of multiple nationalities hitherto hidden from history, with captors and prisoners living for years cheek-by-jowl in a thrilling game of cat and mouse. From the elitist members of the Colditz Bullingdon Club to America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent, the soldier-prisoners of Colditz were courageous and resilient as well as vulnerable and fearful -- and astonishingly imaginative in their desperate escape attempts. Deeply researched and full of incredible human stories, this is the definitive book on Colditz. _____________________________ 'The best true spy story I have ever read' John le Carré on The Spy and the Traitor 'Impeccably researched, superbly told' Antony Beevor on SAS 'This book is classic Ben Macintyre . . . quirky human details enliven every page' Spectator on Agent Sonya