
Agent Sonya
Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
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Ben Macintyre
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Ben Macintyre
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New York Times Best Seller
The “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times best seller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War’s most intrepid spies.
“[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account.” (The Washington Post)
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Foreign Affairs • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal
In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her.
They didn’t know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn’t know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the façade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb.
This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named “Sonya”. Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI - and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the 20th century - between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy - and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times.
With unparalleled access to Sonya’s diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a pause-resisting history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers.
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Ce que les critiques en disent
“[Ben] Macintyre at once exalts and subverts the myths of spy craft.” (The New Yorker)
“Macintyre is fastidious about tradecraft details. ... [He] has become the preeminent popular chronicler of British intelligence history because he understands the essence of the business.” (David Ignatius, The Washington Post)
“Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller.” (John Banville, The Guardian [UK])
Another tour de force by Macintyre
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I immediately searched for more from Ben MacIntyre
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Work-life balance gone awry
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A proper main character
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Not a single person referenced in this book, thus far, except for Rudy, has any redeeming qualities that would cause me to want to learn more about them. Everyone in this book is a massive twat. The hypocrisy, thick.
The main subject is a silly privileged child in desperate need for a cause, so she blindly accepts a tribe built upon pillars of intolerance and autocracy, just to be a part of it. An asshole who’s incapable of looking at the bigger picture and the consequences of working for a regime that killed enough people to make the Nazis look like amateurs.
You’d be better off taking the money you would’ve spent on this book, gently tossing it in the toilet, taking a giant crap on the money, sticking your head inside said toilet, and flushing it until you’re drowned.
I honestly think this writer was paid per word because nobody would fill their pages with insufferable triviality otherwise. I am a huge fan of nonfiction, Cold War literature, and have devoured many a book, but this festering turd was insufferable. It wasn't helped by the bland manner in which the narrator spoke these bland words.
Do you enjoy endless droning of pointless minutia? This book is for you.
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