Used book – Le Roman de l'espionnage, Vladimir Fédorovski

Richard Sorge, the "Cambridge Five", Farewell, Colonel Boris... Mythical figures of Soviet intelligence, these shadowy characters changed the course of history. But who were these Kremlin "illegals" really? What was their role during the revolution, the Second World War and the Cold War? While it questions a period that ended some twenty years ago, The Novel of Espionage also invites us to look at a 20th century that is closer to home. What was Gorbachev's secret strategy during the fall of the Berlin Wall? How did the KGB "mole" sabotage the Moscow coup in August 1991? The "century of spies" does not end at the dawn of the 21st century: in Moscow, Vladimir Fédorovski reminds us, a former secret service agent now presides over the destiny of Russia.