Título: The Spy and the Traitor
Autor: Ben Macintyre
Sinopse: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation’s communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union’s top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. For nearly a decade, as the Cold War reached its twilight, Gordievsky helped the West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and helping to foil countless intelligence plots, as the Soviet leadership grew increasingly paranoid at the United States’s nuclear first-strike capabilities and brought the world closer to the brink of war. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky’s name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain’s obviously top-level source. Their obsession ultimately doomed Gordievsky: the CIA officer assigned to identify him was none other than Aldrich Ames, the man who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets. Unfolding the delicious three-way gamesmanship between America, Britain, and the Soviet Union, and culminating in the gripping cinematic beat-by-beat of Gordievsky’s nail-biting escape from Moscow in 1985, Ben Macintyre has crafted an electrifying account of an international hero. Like the greatest novels of John le Carré, The Spy and the Traitor brings readers deep into a world of treachery and betrayal, where the lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man’s hatred of communism had the power to change the future of nations.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Spy and the Traitor”, de Ben Macintyre, publicado pela editora Broadway Books, em 2018 e com 384 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Broadway Books
Páginas: 384
Ano: 2018
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781101904206
ISBN13: 9781101904206
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Broadway Books costumam oferecer narrativas que transitam entre histórias reais e ficcionais com um tom envolvente e detalhado. O catálogo apresenta desde relatos de aventuras extremas, como escaladas em montanhas perigosas, até investigações históricas e biografias que exploram personagens complexos e eventos marcantes. A linguagem tende a ser acessível, mas rica em informações, combinando ritmo dinâmico em ficções distópicas e suspense com abordagens mais reflexivas em obras de não ficção. As sinopses sugerem um equilíbrio entre narrativas mais narrativas, como histórias pessoais e aventuras, e outras mais informativas, que exploram temas científicos, históricos ou sociais.
