The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carré
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John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is probably the best of the best.
Mybenzo on
John Le Carre for the classic dive into nihilistic Cold War spy craft.
For a new trilogy, try
Black Sun by Owen Matthews. It’s set in the USSR during the height of the arms race. It’s fiction, but follows a scientist much like Sakharov who built what became known in the west as the Tsar Bomb, the biggest A bomb ever exploded. In the novel, a KGB agent is sent to investigate the mysterious death of one of the main physicists living and working at the secret city (Arzamas-16) without getting in the way of the bomb. Deeply researched and fascinating. The author also wrote a lot of non-fiction–he’s a brit and was the Moscow bureau chief for Newsweek.
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The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carré
John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is probably the best of the best.
John Le Carre for the classic dive into nihilistic Cold War spy craft.
For a new trilogy, try
Black Sun by Owen Matthews. It’s set in the USSR during the height of the arms race. It’s fiction, but follows a scientist much like Sakharov who built what became known in the west as the Tsar Bomb, the biggest A bomb ever exploded. In the novel, a KGB agent is sent to investigate the mysterious death of one of the main physicists living and working at the secret city (Arzamas-16) without getting in the way of the bomb. Deeply researched and fascinating. The author also wrote a lot of non-fiction–he’s a brit and was the Moscow bureau chief for Newsweek.
Hunt for Red October.